Today’s front pages – Thursday, April 4

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

Financial crisis curbs EU fertility rate

The fertility rates in EU member states are once again dropping after being on the rise through most of the past decade. A new report from the EU Commission showed that the expected number of children per woman fell from 1.60 in 2008 to 1.57 in 2011. From 2002 to 2008, that number had increased from 1.46 to 1.6. One demographist argued that the trend was due to the financial and social uncertainty the financial crisis brought to Europe. In Denmark, birth rates also fell, from 1.89 in 2008 to 1.75 in 2011. – Politiken

Opposition rejects 37-hour student week

Opposition party Venstre (V) has rejected the government’s school reform proposal to have 37-hour school weeks for older students in grades seven to nine. Venstre want the students to be in school for a maximum of 35 hours each week and wants school days to last until 3pm instead of the government’s proposed 3:30pm. Venstre’s rejection means that the government doesn’t have the necessary political backing to push through their school day agenda since Dansk Folkeparti (DF) and Konservative (K) have also rejected the plan. – Jyllands-Posten

Greenland looks to export Uranium

Greenland’s newly elected labour and industry minister, Jens-Erik Kirkegaard, has said in an interview that he intends to look into doing away with the nation’s zero tolerance approach to uranium. Kirkegaard argued that Greenland would likely follow in the footsteps of the EU when it comes to uranium and go from the current 60 grammes per tonne (Greenland’s status of zero tolerance) to 1,000 grammes per tonne. Kirkegaard will formally assume his ministerial post tomorrow when the new government assembles. – Ingeniøren

Faroe Islands want help to halt exodus

The Faroe Islands' parliament is meeting today to discuss the continuing exodus of people that will see the island nation's population reduced from 48,000 to 37,000 people in 40 years’ time, a drop of more than 20 percent. It is particularly women who have left the island, leading to a current shortage of nearly 2,000 women. Experts argue that Danish politicians should step in and tackle the issue since most of the islanders leave in order to obtain an education or job in Denmark only to never return. – Kristeligt-Dagblad

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    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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