The Minister for Immigration and Integration says that the scheme has turned out to be a good entry to the Danish labour market. Other news on the Copenhagen housing market, Quran burnings and shopping streets in trouble.
The Minister for Immigration and Integration says that the scheme has turned out to be a good entry to the Danish labour market. Other news on the Copenhagen housing market, Quran burnings and shopping streets in trouble.
Copenhagen Airport experienced its busiest days on record on Sunday and Monday. On Sunday, 111,000 passengers passed through the airport. On Monday it was 113,000, writes TV 2 Kosmopol. The previous passenger record of 109,000 in one day was 28 June 2019. Aviation analyst Jacob Pedersen from Sydbank tells Ritzau news agency that “Europeans’ great desire […]
Several municipalities in Denmark will see such a significant drop in their workforce that companies may be forced to relocate, according to a new 2050 projection by the business association Dansk Erhverv, writes Finans. Its analysis found that the workforce will decrease in 78 of the 98 municipalities in the coming 25 years. In a handful […]
When Danes voted for their European Parliamentary representatives in the EP elections last month, SF’s Kira Marie Peter-Hansen garnered the most votes of all the Danish candidates. Yesterday, she secured the position of coordinator in the European Parliament’s economic committee for the left-wing EP group The Greens, where she sat as an ordinary member in […]
“When you have too few suppliers and there are so many millions of people who depend on it, things can easily go wrong,” head of security for Clever Peter Kruse said to DR after a global IT outage caused everything from airlines to hospital systems to grind to a halt. On Friday morning, an update […]
Denmark’s plan to build hybrid environmental and security patrol ships is likely to be abandoned, as the Armed Forces leans towards building full-scale warships instead, according to Børsen. The state has invested several hundred million kroner in designing ships that can perform both tasks, but will now scrap the environmental aspect, and instead “investigate whether […]
The President of the United States Joe Biden was right to withdraw on Sunday as the Democratic presidential candidate for the upcoming November election, according to several national business associations in Denmark, reports Finans. “Now he is wisely passing the baton on to younger forces. On behalf of Danish business, I hope that – sooner […]
An unprecedented number of blue jellyfish have appeared along the coast of North Sjælland in Denmark.
Aquarium manager at the Øresund Aquarium, Jens Peder Jeppesen, says that blue jellyfish in these numbers are “never seen before”.
“Right now we are experiencing large amounts of especially blue jellyfish, which is very unusual. We’ve never seen so many blue jellyfish before,” he tells TV2 Kosmopol.
Earlier in July, blue jellyfish had been spotted several days in a row in various places along the coast.
“They have been lying out in deep water in the Øresund and have now been pushed into shallower water, where they begin to die because they cannot tolerate the brackish water on our coasts in the inland Danish waters,” says Jeppesen.
Although it is mainly the blue jellyfish, red jellyfish have also begun to appear.
They are usually larger, deliver more painful stings, and can have tentacles that are up to ten meters long.
The United States Department of Defense has contracted the small Aalborg satellite company Space Inventor to develop a monitoring system that will safeguard its satellites against espionage and sabotage. Director of Space Inventor Karl Kaas says that for the small North Jylland company, serving the Pentagon is a big accolade. “When the Pentagon chooses to […]
Neither being infected with covid-19, nor having the corona vaccine in the first trimester of pregnancy increase the likelihood of birth defects, according to a new study by the University of Copenhagen (KU). Researchers from KU, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and Norway, examined data from 343,066 newborn children for the study, making it […]
Danish author Tove Ditlevsen’s The Copenhagen Trilogy has made it onto The New York Times‘ distinguished list ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. The trilogy is a series of memoirs first released in Denmark between 1967 and 1971 under the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency. Though the series was published before 1 January […]
Frida and Carl are the most popular baby names in Denmark, according to a new survey by Danmarks Statistik of children born in 2023. Last year, 15 out of 1000 newborn girls were named Frida, while 16 out of 1000 boys were named Carl. It’s the first time each of the two names have topped […]
Rising wages and falling interest rates have made the housing market more accessible to buyers, according to a new analysis from the mortgage lending service Realkredit Danmark. It has become “easier” for a family with children to buy a typical detached house in 91 out of 98 of the country’s municipalities – even though the […]
The price per share of the Danish shipping giant Maersk has fallen by approximately 15 percent in July. Several competitors are experiencing similar drops, according to Finans, as investors speculate that the era of outsized company profits on freight services is coming to an end. The cause are rumours of an imminent peace agreement in […]
Danes are working longer and living shorter lives than in most other EU countries, resulting in one of the bloc’s shortest average pension lives, according to a report by the business media Finans. “We are already at the worse end in Europe, because we live less time than the countries we normally compare ourselves to. […]
It is “insanely unfortunate” that US President Joe Biden accidentally called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj ‘Putin’, and his own vice president Kamala Harris ‘Trump’ at a press conference, says spokesman Paul Schwartz from the political organisation Democrats Abroad in Denmark. But it’s not a ‘death blow’, he argues. Though it confirms the opinions of those […]
A majority of the politicians in Copenhagen City Hall want to introduce a tourist tax for overnight stays in the Danish capital, akin to those already established in various other European countries. Now, the Finance Committee at City Hall has presented four potential models for the tax to Business Minister Morten Bødskov, Socialistisk Folkeparti politician […]
In 2023, a million American tourists came to Denmark on holiday – twice as many as had come in 2014. And in 2024, the figure is set to be even higher. The latest figures from Danmarks Statistik show that there were 321,412 overnight stays by American tourists from January to mid-May – 14 pecent more […]
The train is becoming an ever more popular mode of transport for crossing Storbæltsbroen – the bridge that connects the Danish islands of Fyn ad Sjælland – according to new figures from the national train rail operator DSB. For the past six months, DSB has hit a new record every month for the number of […]
Two leading experts in public health have warned against plans to expand Copenhagen Airport due to the danger to human health posed by the ultrafine air particles emitted by aeroplanes, reports DR. The warnings follow a report in April, which concluded that the area around Copenhagen Airport is more air polluted with ultrafine particles than […]
Novo Nordisk has violated safety regulations several times during the expansion of its production facilities in Kalundborg, according to inspection reports by the Danish Working Environment Authority (WEA) relating to 14 construction site visits this year, reports Medwatch on Monday. According to the inspection reports, a number of immediate orders have been issued, under which […]
In Denmark,the number of summer houses makes up a significant proportion of the total housing pool, and this is particularly true on Sjælland, according to new figures from Danmarks Statistik. In Vest- and Sydsjælland, the number of holiday homes equates to almost 27 percent of the amount of residential houses, while the figure is 26 […]
Carlsberg’s GBP 3.3 billion (DKK 29 billion) takeover offer for the British soft drink manufacturer Britvic has been approved, the Danish drinks company announced in a press release this morning. The board of Britvic will now recommend that the shareholders vote for the acquisition, writes Carlsberg.. Britvic had previously twice rebuffed takeover proposals from Carlsberg […]
Labour politician Stephen Kinnock, who is married to former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has been elected as the new MP in the constituency of Aberafan Maesteg on the South Wales coast, in last night’s UK general election. Kinnock won the seat with a total of 17,838 votes. The nearest challenger was the Reform Party’s […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised against all travel to Israel in the light of new escalations in hostilities between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel. The ministry’s travel safety guide had previously advised against non-essential travel to the country. However, the security risk was adjusted upward on Thursday, when Hezbollah claimed that the movement had […]
There is a significant difference between where in the country immigrants and descendants live. A new calculation from Danmarks Statistik shows that almost every fourth citizen – 23 percent – in the Capital Region is an immigrant or a descendant, writes Ritzau. This is significantly higher than in the four other regions, where the share […]
A 28-year-old man has died after being stabbed last night on Amagerfælledvej in Amager, Copenhagen. The police received a report about “disorder” at 00:58, warden Jonathan Wald told Ekstra Bladet . “When we arrive, we find a person who is badly injured as a result of a stab wound, and the person in question has subsequently died,” […]
Changes to import and export agreements between the UK and the European Union as a result of Brexit have cost Danish exports dearly in both revenue and jobs, according to a new calculation by Dansk Industri (DI). Total Danish exports to the UK are below their pre-Brexit levels, while trade between Denmark and the EU […]
The Capital Region (Region Hovedstaden) has a target that 70 percent of the patients in child and youth psychiatry must be examined within 30 days, but on average only 13 percent of the patients were examined on time in March, April and May. These numbers come in a new report prepared for the region’s psychiatry […]
The 22-year-old South African singer Tyla has pulled out of Roskilde the day before she was scheduled to headline the Danish music festival, due to “unforeseen circumstances”. In an announcement on the official website, Roskilde Festival promises a “replacement is on the way”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Roskilde Festival (@roskildefestival) […]
Yesterday was the first time that the National Security Agency had to use young people under 18 to buy in physical stores. This is done to tighten supervision of the sale of alcohol and tobacco to minors with age control in physical stores. On the first day, more than one in three shops selling alcohol, […]
Based on the number of passengers through June, Copenhagen Airport is headed for a great summer. Copenhagen Airport has so far recorded 16 days with over 100,000 passengers compared to just three days in 2023. The airport had 2.8 million travelers through it in June, distributed over the 293 summer routes that fly outbound from […]
A 52-year-old man has died and around 140 evacuated from a residential area in Kosør, after an explosion in a housing estate in Korsør on Monday. The incident is being treated as an accident that likely “has something to do with fireworks”, Anton Havegaard from the South Zealand and Lolland-Falster Police told DR this morning. Chemicals […]
For the first time, an electric car is the most popular car in six months, announces Mobility, the organization for car importers in Denmark. “It is good for the green transition that electric cars now make up almost half of new sales. The positive development just continues,” says Mads Rørvig, managing director of Mobillity Denmark. […]
Figures from the Danish Employers’ Association show that wages in the first quarter were 6.5 percent higher than in the same period last year, writes Ritzau. That is the highest wage increase rate since 1987. “Things are going well with Danes’ real wages, which are now back above the level from before the inflation crisis […]
To beat the host country Germany in Euro 24, you need to play well and have a bit of luck. Denmark managed neither. That’s why the red and whites will not advance. They come home. Germany won 2-0 in a match mostly remembered for a stoppage of play after 35 minutes due to thunder – […]
Denmark will accept 200 refugees from Rwanda, Eritrea and Afghanistan in 2024 as part of the UN’s quota system. As last year, they will primarily be women and children, writes the Ministry of Immigration and Integration in a press release. Specifically, the quota will apply to refugees from Rwandan, Eritrean and Afghan camps, as well […]
Sheng Li, a student at Det Internationale Gymnasium at Niels Brock in Copenhagen has matriculated high school with the highest grade-average in Denmark. His score of 12.7 across six A-levels was hard won: for the three years of his studies, he would help his parents in their sushi restaurant after school each day before finishing homework […]
Ursula von der Leyen continues as president of the European Commission. Kaja Kallas will become head of EU’s foreign affairs and Antonio Costa will become EU president. Two right-wing politicians from Germany and Estonia and a social democrat from Portugal. Two women and a man, the cabal has broken up. The Danish Prime Minister did […]
In 2023, Trustpilot’s Danish subsidiary company achieved a turnover of more than one billion kroner, while its profits rose from 15 to 141 million kroner. The Danish-founded Trustpilot Group plc operates a review site for businesses worldwide on which almost 1 million new consumer reviews are posted each month. The company’s management called the result […]
Denmark will no longer contribute two warships to NATO’s standing naval force in the second half of 2024, after the air defence system aboard one of the frigates failed during a drone attack by Houthi pirates in the Red Sea in March. “The challenges that the crew of the Iver Huitfeldt experienced during the mission […]
There are 5,036 poor children in Copenhagen. These new figures come from the Municipality of Copenhagen, writes TV2 Kosmopol. Just under half of the city’s poor children live in either Brønshøj-Husum, Bispebjerg or Nørrebro. While Østerbro is one of the places in the capital where the fewest poor children live – according to the report. […]
Denmark’s largest and currently most successful company, Novo Nordisk, is introducing a partial hiring freeze. This is done to protect the company culture, writes Finans. Novo Nordisk has experienced a giant surge in the number of employees, as the company has significantly expanded its business to keep up with the demand for diabetes drug Ozempic […]
Between June and August this year, Copenhagen Airport is expecting to hit a record number of travellers. Up to nine million passengers are expected to take off and land on the runways of the biggest travel hub in the Nordics, according to a Copenhagen Airport press release. That figure exceeds by over a million last […]
The Danish government has issued a new humanitarian support package for Gaza and the West Bank of DKK 80 million. Since October, more than 37,000 Palestinians in the Gaza strip have been killed in Israeli military air and artillery strikes, according to Palestinian health authorities, while the majority of the country’s population suffers from ongoing […]
By the end of the year, Ukrainian soldiers will no longer be trained to fly F-16 fighter jets in Denmark, said Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen at a press conference on Monday with Norway’s Defense Minister, Bjørn Arild Gram. This is out of “respect for” the fact that Denmark is transitioning to F-35 combat aircraft, […]
Denmark has not won a game at Euro 24 in Germany. Neither has Denmark lost after three group matches. That will change on Saturday, when the hosts and favorites Germany await in a showdown in Dortmund. A goalless and uneventful draw against Serbia was enough for Denmark to finish second in Group C, which sadly […]
Novo Nordisk’s popular weight loss drug Wegovy has been approved for the treatment of severe obesity in China. “We can confirm that Wegovy has been approved in China for the treatment of severe obesity or obesity with at least one weight-related comorbidity,” Novo Nordisk writes to Ritzau. China has previously been described as a market […]
Danish politicians have agreed to establish zones with increased punishment for hate crimes, for example of an anti-Semitic nature. This is presented at a press conference headed by Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard on Tuesday. All parties in Folketinget are in the agreement. “In these months and years, we have a huge obligation to do […]
In November last year, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a weight loss drug for the US market by the Indianapolis-based firm Eli Lilly, to rival the success of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. The drug, Zepbound, is a rebrand of Eli Lilly’s type 2 diabetes drug Mounjaro, which was already approved for use on the […]
In 2010, 1.2 million Danes had health insurance. Today, the number is 2.9 million – or almost as many as employed in Denmark, writes Berlingske. The vast majority of them have the insurance through their employer-paid pension scheme, says F&P, which represents companies within insurance and pensions. “Private health insurance and health schemes have become […]