Today’s front pages – Friday, March 15

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

Doctors sending pregnant women home

A number of hospitals send home pregnant women who have just been administered the birth-stimulant Minprostin, even though they should be monitored. According to medicine authority Lægemiddelstyrelsen, the stimulant should only be used in maternity wards with the proper equipment to monitor both mother and baby. But hospitals in Hvidovre, Aalborg, Vendsyssel and Sønderborg refer to the Danish obstetrics and gynaecology society, DSOG, which approves of sending pregnant women home to await contractions. – Berlingske

S-voters at odds with their prime minister

When Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Socialdemokraterne) called the new government growth plan “classic social-democratic policy”, many of her party members disagreed with her. According to a survey by YouGov for metroXpress newspaper, only 22 percent of Socialdemokraterne (S) voters agree with that statement and only 14 percent of all voters concur. However, 59 percent of S voters agree that the growth plan will enhance Denmark’s ability to compete globally. Furthermore, 65 percent of S voters said that they have varying degrees of faith that the growth plan will create jobs and economic growth by 2020. – MetroXpress

Unemployment insurers offer varied punishment

There are major differences in how much unemployment insurers, A-kasser, sanction their unemployed members, according to new stats. New figures from labour market authorities Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen show that in 2012, Magistrenes A-kasse sanctioned its members by 0.8 percent of their monthly A-kasse income for not being available to work. ASE, Det Faglige Hus and Min A-Kasse, on the other hand, docked their members six percent for the same offence. While councils are in charge of setting up job interviews and activation for unemployed individuals, the authority to sanction them rests solely with the individual's A-kasse – Jyllands-Posten

SF against council teaching model

Government coalition party, Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF), has said that it is prepared to stand against local government association Kommunernes Landsforening’s (KL) teaching model if it only favours council interests. The news is a clear warning to Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon (Socialdemokraterne) as it is not standard practise for political parties to comment during a union conflict. In a mail to party members, the SF leadership said that the education reform issue could come to a head sometime around May 1. – Politiken

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    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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