Today’s front pages – Wednesday, Feb 20

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

More reforms coming

Following yesterday's announced SU reform, the government is now looking to do away with the so-called 'match groups' that the councils use for delegating job offers to social security recipients. The employment minister, Mette Frederiksen (Socialdemokraterne), wants social security receivers to be more job-active in future. There are three match groups: Group 1 is for people ready to work, Group 2 is for people ready for job activation while Group 3, where social security recipients are currently placed, is for people who are aren't active in the job market due to problems of a psychological or social nature. – Politiken

No construction = no homes

The building industry in Denmark is at its lowest point since before the Second World War and a housing shortage seems imminent. New figures from the construction association, Dansk Byggeri, indicated that only 9,500 private and public homes will be constructed in 2013. That’s 26,600 less than the highest point in 2006 and well below the average of 27,000 homes built annually for the past 60 years. The financial crisis is the main reason for the cautious building patterns. – Berlingske

Green energy support being reined in

Last year, electricity customers contributed a record 4.7 billion kroner to green energy investments through fees on their electricity bills, according to energinet.dk. The business sector has complained that the fee is ruining their ability to compete, which in turn, has led to opposition party Venstre proposing to end the fee. Venstre argues that the fee was supposed to contribute a more reasonable 100 million kroner in 2012 as part of the government's green energy goals. – Jyllands-Posten

Cousins strike it rich in Maldives

Lars Erik Nielsen and his two cousins, Jesper and Rene Mourier, have made a fortune by selling their air taxi service in the Maldives to a US company. The Danish cousins sold their business, Maldivian Air Taxi, for billions of kroner to investors Blackstone after seven gruelling months of negotiations. Maldivian Air Taxi, which was founded in 1991, made its money by shuttling tourists around the approximately 1,200 islands in the Maldives in water planes. – Børsen

TOP STORIES

  • 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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