Today’s front pages – Monday, Jan 21

The Copenhagen Post’s daily digest of what the Danish dailies are reporting on their front pages

Wozniacki down and out down under
Caroline Wozniacki is out of the Australian Open after losing a marathon match to Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova  6-2, 2-6, 7-5. Wozniacki was desperately close to clinching place in the quarterfinals. She was up 30-15 while ahead 5-4 in the final set. But Kuznetsova roared back to win the set and then clinched the match two sets later. The result in Melbourne could cause Wozniacki to drop out of top-10 rankings for the first time in several years. – Ekstra Bladet

Opposition wants to scrap investigatory commissions
Should the current opposition parties rise to power in the next election, they would limit the use of the investigatory commissions that are used to investigate alleged wrongdoing. Investigatory commissions have been used by the Danish state for 30 years at a cost of some 350 million kroner. In 2012, five commissions investigated various cases at a price tag of 27 million kroner. Opposition parties such as Venstre and Konservative contend that taxpayers are not getting their money's worth. – Berlingske

Political majority wants more control in Greenland
Venstre (V), Dansk Folkeparti (DF) and Enhedslisten (EL) are among the political parties that are leaning towards giving he Danish state more influence in the excavation of valuable minerals in Greenland. The parties argue that more influence would better protect Danish interests and avoid foreign labourers working for low wages. Greenland's political leadership rejected the notion of Denmark a state-owned company to operate in Greenland. – Politiken

Help wanted: vicar who believes in God
Mejdal Church in Viborg, Jutland, has become the first church to explictly state that it is hiring a vicar who Denmark who is a ‘believer’. In its current job posting, the church insisted that applicants must believe in God. Vicars' association Præsteforeningen criticised the wording of the announcement, asking “who can decide if a person has the correct beliefs"? The Mejdal Parish Council indicated that an infamous case from 2003 in which Rev Thorkild Grosbøll said he did not believe in an all-powerful God, motivated them to require a vicar who believes in a supreme being. – Kristeligt Dagblad

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  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.

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  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.

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