Morning Briefing – Thursday, July 4

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

Dankort terminals experience technical difficulties

UPDATED, 9:27am: While you may have run into difficulty in using your Dankort card this morning, the card operators, Nets, have reported that their system is up and running again. A technical breakdown occurred at 3am which made it impossible to withdraw cash or use unmanned Dankort terminals. Nets, which is for sale, reported shortly after 8am that the system was working again. – Politiken

Employers struggling to find workers

Despite there being 150,000 unemployed people in Denmark, employers are having a more difficult time finding workers for their available jobs. The bi-annual recruitment report from labour market authorities Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen showed that employers failed to fill 9,400 job openings throughout the spring, almost double from the 5,000 positions that were not filled in spring 2012. – Jyllands-Posten

Electric car owners organise

Danish electric car owners have created their own grass-roots organisation, Forenede Danske Elbilister (FDE), in a bid to promote electric cars in Denmark. The number one priority for FDE is to save the e-car system that is based on battery changing, which is in grave danger of collapsing after e-car operator Better Place went bankrupt last month. – Information

Rabies virus could beat cancer

A Danish researcher has been a part of a team in Canada that has developed a math-based computer model that can help understand how a rabies virus can be used to kill cancer cells. Mads Kærn, a researcher at the University of Ottawa, said that the computer model is useful because it can be used to predict what will happen in the lab. Early results look promising. – Videnskab

Swedes show how it’s done

Denmark has lost out on hundreds of billions of kroner because it has been unable to keep up with Sweden in terms of economic growth. Based on OECD predictions, from today to the year 2030, Denmark will lose out on 388 billion kroner due to growth that is inferior to that of the Swedes. The lost funds will push Denmark out of the top 20 richest countries in the world. Sweden, on the other hand, is predicted to join the top ten. – Børsen

Bendtner’s Frankfurt move looks kaput

Embattled Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner looks unlikely to make a move to Frankfurt after all. According to reports, the Bundesliga club has given up on the Dane after not being able to live up to Bendtner’s wage demands. Punters speculate that the 25-year-old will now be looking towards bids from Malaga in Spain and Besiktas in Turkey. – Tipsbladet

Danes criticised for inactivity

The Norwegian government has decided to ban perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) after research by Aarhus University found that the chemical was unhealthy. PFOA, which is used in the treatment of clothes and furniture, will be illegal to sell, produce or import in Norway as of 1 January 2014. Danish experts, however, have criticised the national authorities for not following the Norwegians' lead. – Ingeniøren

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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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