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Denmark's second and third largest banks are among the institutions accused of helping customers avoid taxes.

• Danish taxes continue inexorable rise
• Danish tax authority cleans up after scandals

How to make your kroner go further in the Danish capital, which was recently declared the eighth most expensive city in the world.

• An expat's guide to making friends with Danes
• How being an expat in Copenhagen changed

Alright, we confess: not everything you read on The Local this morning met our usual standards of accuracy.

A newborn baby girl was found by a rubbish collector in Bagsværd on Friday morning, Copenhagen Vestegn Police said.

• Abandoned baby sparks debate on safe havens

The Danish government on Friday renewed border control measures for the fifth time since putting them in place at the start of January.

• No fines for failed ID checks from Denmark to Sweden
• Denmark sees record low week for asylum seekers
• Danish border controls extended by another month

The days of making an easy profit by loaning your apartment out while away on holiday appear to be numbered in Denmark.

• Copenhagen cab drivers stop traffic to protest Uber
• Uber drives Danish MPs to negotiation table

Police in northern Zealand have fined two people for distributing a video of extreme sex acts between minors.

• Young Danes 'ditching Facebook for real world'
• Copenhagen man tricked young girls into sex

And he’ll bring Alice Cooper and Joe Perry with him.

• Denmark’s Lukas Graham tops iTunes, is Billboard next?
• The best album ever recorded in Denmark just turned 30
• Bruce Springsteen gig confirmed in Denmark

The PM on Wednesday presented a framework for combatting extremist views.

• Denmark may strip citizenship from imams
• Danish ‘Sharia council’ voluntarily disbands
• Denmark wants to deport extremist imams
• New clip from Danish mosque: Hit kids who don't pray
• Imam at Danish mosque: Stone women to death

An Australian TV programme that highlighted Denmark's "kids gone wild" at a forest kindergarten struck a nerve internationally. Parenting expert Jessica Alexander explains why.

Meet the Danish companies growing under the radar.

As Brits prepare to go to the polls this summer, The Local takes a look at five reasons Danes might hope ‘Brexit’ fails to materialise.

An Austrian photographed making a fascist Islamic salute in a concentration camp has now been accused of circulating Nazi propaganda.

Migrants to Switzerland could be forced to take an exam on Swiss cheeses if a popular initiative is approved in a referendum in June.

Unfortunately for the Turkish President, the German government doesn't control the media.

Just what do you buy for the man who has everything?