After the embattled Eva Kjer Hansen resigned as the enivornment and food minister over the weekend, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced a minor cabinet shake-up on Monday.
Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on Thursday that he is more likely to call for a new election than to fire his embattled environment and food minister, Eva Kjer Hansen.
Small support party the Conservatives on Wednesday stood by its threat to withdraw support for the government and force new elections if Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen failed to sack a cabinet minister in a row over agricultural reforms.
A new poll shows a “historic” drop in voter support for the Social Democrats, with eight of ten voters who jumped ship saying they left the party over its hard-line position on asylum and immigration.
The speaker of parliament, Pia Kjærsgaard, has blasted her fellow MPs for being too preoccupied with social media to pay attention to political debates.
In his opening address to parliament on Tuesday, Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that a decision to go along with the EU’s asylum and immigration policies would be put to Danes in a referendum.
The Danish government will not seek to stop paying out quarterly parental benefits to EU citizens living in Denmark despite Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s previous opposition to it, Jyllands-Posten reported on Thursday.
UPDATED: Helle Thorning-Schmidt officially started Denmark's election cycle on Wednesday by making her opening arguments to Danes for four more years in power.
This week marks PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt's last chance to call an election if she wants Danes to go to the polls before summer holidays and several inside sources say she's ready to pull the trigger.
Sporting latex masks and known to interrupt parliament by breaking out in song, the Puppet Party is hoping to ride a wave of voter disenchantment into Christiansborg.
Radical Islam is "in the same family" as Nazism and must be "fought and eliminated", Conservative leaders said in launching an attention-grabbing campaign.
Danish poet of Palestinian heritage, Yahya Hassan, announced on Tuesday that he is entering politics and joining the new National Party (Nationalpartiet), saying he wants to help unite people in Denmark.
The new political party The Alternative has collected enough voter signatures to make the ballot while another new party, the National Party, is appealing for help to make its goal.
The ruling Social Democrats and main opposition party Venstre are both out with new ad campaigns, but the PM's party denies it is gearing up for an election.
With Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven forced to call a new election just three months into his term, Danish journalist and political commentator David Trads says the crisis reveals the strength of Denmark's coalition government.
She's been hammered by critics and already seemingly written off in the next election, but political commentator David Trads says Helle Thorning-Schmidt has delivered the goods while in office and deserves another term.
News articles about the newly-formed National Party were greeted by hostile and threatening comments on social media and the party has now reported the threats to the police.
Two new political parties are trying to break through to Christiansborg. While one has failed to arouse columnist Michael Booth's interest with its bland talk of sustainability and innovation, the other's attempt to rebrand Danishness and change perceptions of immigrants has captured his interest.
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is forced to make her eighth cabinet reshuffle in three years after Justice Minister Karen Hækkerup leaves politics for a job heading up the food and agriculture lobby.
