Today’s front pages – Monday, March 25

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

Trains packed with air pollution

Passengers travelling on DSB’s regional trains can be exposed to high levels of air pollution, according to new measurements. Two separate measurements from the ecological council, Det Økologiske Råd, showed that it can be far more taxing on one's health to take the regional trains, pulled by DSB’s ageing diesel locomotives, than standing at one of Copenhagen’s busiest roads during rush hour. Det Økologiske Råd took measurements after several passengers complained of a strong diesel smell in the trains. – Politiken

Gang members becoming militant Islamists

The domestic intelligence agency, PET, has for the first time seen a clear connection between people from the Danish gang environment and militant Islamists fighting in Syria. According to PET, several members of the toughest gangs in Copenhagen are currently in Syria, or have been there, waging holy war. PET fears that those who go to Syria risk becoming radicalised. The authorities are worried that the gangs will use the warfare skills they learn in Syria on the streets here in Denmark. Jyllands-Posten newspaper wrote that gang members from Blågårds Plads Gruppen in Nørrebro, La Raza from Valby and Bloodz from the southern suburbs all have members who have fought in Syria. – Jyllands-Posten

German oil giant threatens to leave

The biggest international investor in Danish oil, aside from the Maersk-led conglomerate DUC, has threatened to pull out of several Danish activities because of more stringent rules for oil companies operating in Denmark. Bayerngas said that the new rules mean make Denmark a less attractive place to do business and they have halted all preparations to bid on projects during the next licence round “because it doesn’t make sense anymore”, their CEO said. Bayerngas has invested a total of two billion kroner in Denmark.

Wozzy down and out in Miami

Caroline Wozniacki couldn’t repeat her Indian Wells success from last week after she lost surprisingly to the 73rd ranked Garbine Muguruza in straight sets at the WTA tournament in Miami. The 19-year-old Spanish wild-card player needed barely 80 minutes to overcome ninth-seed Wozniacki 6-2, 6-4 and move on to the quarterfinals, where she will take on fifth seeded Li Na from China. For Wozniacki, however, it was the fifth time this year that she lost to a player ranked outside the top 70. – Ekstra Bladet

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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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