Morning Briefing – Monday, May 13

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

Report: Interpreters are in danger

A new report from the global human rights organisation Avaaz has quelled any notion that interpreters in Afghanistan who have worked for coalition forces are safe. Out of 35 interpreters contacted by Avaaz, 34 said that they had received death threats but only a few had reported it to the authorities out of fear. Since 2001, 25 out of 195 interpreters working for the Danish forces in Afghanistan have been killed. – Politiken

Upper-secondary diploma not enough

Students who get their upper-secondary school diploma but fail to obtain a higher education afterwards risk being viewed as de facto uneducated, the labour council Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE) fears. About eight percent of every graduating class from upper-secondary schools will never continue their education and in 2020, 62,000 of them will be unusable in the labour market, according to a report by AE. – Berlingske

Thorning-Schmidt popular abroad

Prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Socialdemokraterne) may be unpopular at home as she continues to plummet in the polls, but she is seen as a borderline star abroad. The international think-tank Policy Network praised Thorning-Schmidt as much more decisive than the French president Francois Hollande, while she has also been hailed by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the EU president, Herman Van Rompuy. – Jyllands-Posten

Tvis Holstebro wins EHF Cup

The women’s team from Tvis Holstebro secured the biggest result in club history after beating French outfit Metz 33-28 in the European Handball Federation (EHF) final. Tvis Holstebro had lost the first game by four goals at home, but sensationally managed to turn the tide by a five-goal margin in France to win 64-63 on aggregate. – Sporten.dk

Politicians gunning for pension funds

A number of politicians from a wide range of parties in parliament are ready to put pension funds in their place in order to secure equal access and conditions to the so-called 'age savings tax discount' as proposed by the government. A number of pension funds have not offered the solution to their customers while others have charged exuberant fees. – Børsen

Thousands paying too much in rent

Around 100,000 renters are paying too much, according to metroXpress newspaper. The renters' advocacy group, Lejernes Landsorganisation (LLO), found that in nine out of ten cases, the house rent is too high on ownership flats (ejerlejligheder) and if everyone who rented ownership flats took their cases to the renting commission, they could, on average, pay 8,600 kroner less a year. – metroXpress

Police kick out occupiers

Copenhagen Police arrested 38 people on Sunday after they had occupied a building illegally from Thursday evening. The building, located at Jagtvej 155B, was stormed by the police and the 38 occupiers were all charged with illegal entry to a building. The occupiers said that they wanted to transform the building into a ‘cultural free haven’. – TV2 News

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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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