It was hackers who paralysed the country’s train network the previous weekend. Rail operator DSB originally denied there had been a cyber-attack but has now acknowledged that IT-provider Supeo’s operating system was ‘compromised…

The centre-right ’red’ bloc of parties won Tuesday’s election despite losing the popular vote.  The final tally shows the opposition parties, plus the centrist Moderates, received 1.797.475 votes, while the (former) government alliance…

Caretaker prime minister Mette Frederiksen commences government negotiations this morning. As parliament’s second-biggest party, the Liberals (Venstre) will be first through the door at 8am, followed by representatives of the Moderates, Socialist People’s…

Former foreign minister Martin Lidegaard is the new leader of the Social Liberals, taking over from Sofie Carsten Nielsen who quit following the centrist party’s disastrous showing in Tuesday’s election. At a press…

A record number of women were voted into parliament in Tuesday’s election. 44.1% of the 179 newly elected lawmakers are women, well above the previous record of 39.1% in 2019. While Denmark is…

The public’s confidence in the economy deteriorated for the second month running in October. The latest Statistics Denmark data shows the overall economic confidence index, which includes consumer expectations, dropped to 71.1 from…

Denmark is ranked 3rd on the 2020 Global Talent Competitiveness Index, moving ahead of the US for the first time ever. Switzerland and Singapore took the first two places on the index published…

The jobless figures fell slightly in September. The latest Statistics Denmark data shows the gross unemployment rate dropped to 2.5% in September from 2.6% in August – to 74,500 from 76,300 in the…

Pension funds challenge Amazon….Maersk pessimistic despite positive Q3 figures….Ørsted profits boosted by high energy prices… Danish pension funds Sampension, PenSam and PKA are in dialogue with  Amazon ’due to several cases which paint…

Despite narrowly clinging on to power in Tuesday’s election, Mette Frederiksen and her Social Democrat government stepped down yesterday after the now ‘caretaker’ prime minister said she would attempt to put together a…