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International inclusion in Copenhagen: Insights from Culture and Leisure Mayor Mia Nyegaard

Over 130,000 internationals live in Copenhagen. Here, the city’s Culture and Leisure Mayor Mia Nyegaard outlines how the municipality supports inclusion n the Danish capital.

Copenhagen Municipality’s Culture and Leisure Mayor Mia Nyegaard. Photo: Københavns Kommune

Lotte van den Hout

Jun 12, 2024

Copenhagen, and Denmark in general, needs international workers, wrote the city’s Mayor of Culture and Leisure Mia Nyegaard last week in an debate feature for The Copenhagen Post. Yet, 35 percent of the skilled workers who move to Denmark from abroad, leave within five years. For Nyegaard, including internationals in the cultural life of Copenhagen is […]

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