School vacations vary slightly by municipality. Besides official public holidays and school vacations, Denmark has several special observance days that are widely recognized but not official days off ...

A proposal by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen would eliminate one public day off from work in an effort to increase spending on defense. By Jasmina Nielsen Reporting from Copenhagen. Just as ...

On the fourth Friday after Easter, Denmark typically observes a religious festival known as Store Bededag, or Great Prayer Day. The national holiday has existed for over three centuries ...

COPENHAGEN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Denmark's parliament on Tuesday passed a much-debated bill put forward by the new government to scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defence spending.

Workers in Denmark currently have up to 11 public holidays; the figure is lower in years where Christmas and New Years fall on weekends. A bill proposing the abolition of the Store Bededag holiday ...

Denmark itself is a little fuzzy on the origins ... making handcrafted ornaments to hang on trees and decorate homes remains a beloved holiday tradition. Any Dane will tell you about their country ...

Workers in Denmark currently have up to 11 public holidays; the figure is lower in years where Christmas and New Year fall on weekends. The loss of the holiday - created more than 300 years ago ...

Denmark's new coalition government is set to scrap a bank holiday to boost defence spending. It is one of the first measures agreed by the unusual coalition between centre-left and centre-right ...

Denmark has scrapped a public holiday in order to help pay for its NATO defence spending commitments. The newly formed government says the move will help raise tax revenues for money to boost the ...