Election news in briefs: Helle’s alternative

In other news there was funding questions, outsiders and an election experiment in Jutland

Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s PM aspirations might hinge on the new party Alternativet, which has over 2 percent of the voters according to recent polls. Alternativet, which wants to cut weekly work hours from 37 to 30 as part of its election platform, could end up swinging the election away from the opposition.

Election experiment
Some 40 people from a street in Ikast, Jutland have taken part in an election experiment that gave them the power that politicians enjoy in Denmark. The street levelled huge cuts in military service, administration and culture, while more money went to elderly, vulnerable children, teachers and the local school.

Popular unknown
Jeppe Bruus (socialdemokraterne) is on the brink of enjoying a stunning election after the relatively unknown politician attracted over 70,000 supporters thanks to a Facebook campaign blasting the opposition for wanting to lower the criminal responsibility age to 12. Bruus got just 3,000 votes at the last election.

More immigrants on benefits
The number of immigrants on the social benefit kontanthjælp has shot up by 37 percent since the current government took over in 2011. The figures, from Danmarks Statistik, showed that of the 42,465 people on kontanthjælp last year, by far the most were immigrants from non-Western  nations.

Campaign funds?
A Beringske survey has revealed which parties are most reluctant to provide information about the origin of their campaign funds. Of the 487 of 774 politicians who were asked, Socialdemokraterne, Liberal Alliance and Konservative were most against revealing details concerning campaign funds.




  • 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.


  • 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

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  • 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.