Morning Briefing – Tuesday, May 7

The Copenhagen Post’s daily digest of what the Danish press is reporting

DF in rage over Somalia funds

Right-wing Dansk Folkeparti (DF) is fuming at the news that the development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), is expected to announce the donation of 75 million kroner to war-torn Somalia today. DF spokesperson Hans Kristian Skibby called the donation “insane” and feared that the money would be spent on financing further conflict in the country. –TV2 News

Danish pedagogy embraced in China

Danish pedagogic style has become coveted in China, where parents want their children to experience more play and creativity. VIA University College is behind an initiative to introduce Nordic-inspired kindergartens in Chengdu and Chongqing that cater up to 100 children each. – DR News

Opposition wants tax authorities investigated

Opposition parties Venstre and Konservative do not have faith in tax authority Skat's ability to properly investigate high-profile tax cases. The parties argued that Skat utilised dubious methods in its handling of cases involving PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s husband Stephen Kinnock, photo model Camilla Vest Nielsen, and former Pandora tycoon Jesper ‘Kasi’ Nielsen. – Berlingske

Seeing the doctor could cost a bundle

The public could risk having to pay up to 900 kroner per consultation if the doctors follow through on their threat to end the co-operation with the public sector as of September 1. Each individual doctor could set his or her own consultation price with no guarantee that the councils will refund the entire amounts to patients afterwards. – Jyllands-Posten

PFA taking on the banks

The nation’s biggest pension fund, PFA, is planning a direct attack on the pension funds operated by Danske Bank and Nordea Bank, which control the private pension market. The move will include taking over 49 percent of the small and medium sized banks’ pension fund, Letpension, giving PFA access to 400,000 customers. – Børsen

Thousands popping pills they don’t need

There are about 300,000 Danes currently on ‘happy pills’ against depression, but according to a leading doctor, ten percent of them are taking medicine even though it doesn’t help them. Instead of relief from depression, they just get the side effects of pain, heart issues, impotence and dizziness. – Videnskab.dk

Majka slips in the Giro

Team Saxo-Tinkoff’s big hope in the overall standings, Rafal Majka, lost 34 seconds to some of his main rivals yesterday in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia. The young Pole finished 50 seconds behind stage winner Luca Paolini (Katusha) and is currently sitting in 26th place in the overall standings. – Sporten.dk

TOP STORIES

  • 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.

  • State pool for coastal protection financing inundated with applications

    State pool for coastal protection financing inundated with applications

    11 applicants sought state funding of over one billion kroner each for critical coastal protection projects, but the subsidy pool only contains 150 million kroner. Denmark’s municipalities say the government needs to provide more financing.

  • Safety concerns at Jewish school after nearby explosions in Israeli embassy area

    Safety concerns at Jewish school after nearby explosions in Israeli embassy area

    In the early hours of October 2, two hand grenades were detonated near Denmark’s Israeli Embassy in Hellerup, just outside Copenhagen. While nobody was injured, the attack has raised safety concerns at the local Jewish school, which chose to close that day, and is operating with police security. The Copenhagen Post spoke to the father of a child who attends the Jewish school, who shared his thoughts on raising his daughter in this climate.

  • Denmark postpones green hydrogen transmission rollout to Germany to 2031

    Denmark postpones green hydrogen transmission rollout to Germany to 2031

    Denmark will postpone its rollout of the first cross-border green hydrogen pipeline between western Denmark and northern Germany by three years from 2028 to 2031, as production stumbles over technical, market and permit complexities.

  • Overview: Denmark’s upcoming education system reform

    Overview: Denmark’s upcoming education system reform

    The Danish government yesterday presented its proposals for an education system reform, including scrapping 10th grade, introducing tougher admission requirements, and opening 400 new international degree-level study places in the STEM fields.

  • Almost half of Danes support an enforced two-state solution in Israel and Palestine

    Almost half of Danes support an enforced two-state solution in Israel and Palestine

    45 percent of survey respondents support a two-state solution enforced by the international community. However, 51.1 percent oppose the use of military force. Advocates of the two-state solution suggest a Palestinian state whose territory comprises the Gaza Strip and West Bank, linked by an Israeli-owned corridor through Israel.

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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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