News round up

EU to mine graphite in Greenland

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Tristan Fender

The European Union is launching a series of international mining projects to reduce its dependence on external suppliers of raw materials. Among them is a new plan to mine graphite in Greenland, as a means to secure resources vital to European industries. Announced by EU Commission Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné, the Greenland project is one […]

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  • Greenland: Cannot say if IUD scandal was genocide

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    Based on two reports regarding the spiral case, Greenland’s government cannot conclude whether genocide occurred, announced Minister Mariane Paviasen Jensen. One report states there was no genocide, while the other indicates it remains a possible conclusion. The spiral case involves girls and women who were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge and consent by […]

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  • Frederik Cilius gets tile on Denmark’s Walk of Fame

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    On Friday afternoon, the 29th tile was laid on Denmark’s counterpart to Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Frederiksberg Allé, featuring Frederik Cilius’ silhouette. The 40-year-old classical clarinetist, satirist, and actor is this year’s recipient of the Theater Tile (Teaterflisen), announced by the foundation Frederiksbergfonden. Frederik Cilius is honored with a granite tile featuring a bronze […]

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  • Frederiksberg firm in controversial Saudi project

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    The Danish architectural firm Schulze+Grassov contributed a design task to the Riyadh Metro for the state entity Royal Commission for Riyadh City. An Amnesty International report documented that the metro project was marked by systematic abuse and exploitation of migrant workers, who reported low wages, extreme heat, and unsanitary conditions. Schulze+Grassov stated to media outlet […]

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  • 12 Chinese jailed for money laundering and VAT fraud

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    A judge at the Copenhagen City Court has ruled to remand 12 men and women of Chinese background into custody in a case involving money laundering of 121 million kroner and VAT fraud of 23 million kroner. The alleged crimes occurred partly through two luxury goods shops, where expensive items were fictitiously traded to obscure […]

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  • Metroselskabet selects new metro operator

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    Metroselskabet announced in a press release on Friday that it has selected a new operator for the future operation and maintenance of the Copenhagen Metro. Following an extensive tender process, Metroselskabet chose KBH Metro Partner, which will be responsible for operating and maintaining metro lines M1–M4 starting in September 2027. The contract has a total […]

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  • Heavy rain spreads nationwide

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    DMI has warned of heavy rain on Friday, which has particularly affected West Jutland and parts of Central Jutland so far. In Bækmarksbro, 41.4 millimeters of rain fell between midnight and 11:00 a.m. By early Friday afternoon, the rain reached the northern and eastern parts of Denmark, bringing risks of heavy showers, thunder, and cloudbursts. […]

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  • Government to give military access to private land

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    The Danish government wants to grant the Danish Defence access to private property to more easily identify unmanned vehicles like drones and monitor airspace and sea. Under a draft bill, the military could install sensors and radars on public and private property to create a “drone shield.” Residential buildings, daycare facilities, schools, hospitals, and nursing […]

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  • Supreme Court approves use of young decoy shoppers

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    The Supreme Court has assessed that the Danish Safety Technology Authority’s use of young decoy shoppers in connection with alcohol and tobacco sales does not violate the law. The case was brought by a kiosk owner on Als who was fined 25,000 kroner for selling nicotine pouches to a 16-year-old decoy shopper in the summer […]

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  • Business

    Student housing costs now exceed SU in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg

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    Housing costs for students have risen in several of Denmark’s university cities, with rent in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg now higher than what a typical student receives in SU, according to a new analysis from Finans Danmark. Finans Danmark, the industry association for banks, mortgage lenders and other financial companies in Denmark, found that a typical […]

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  • Norway’s King Harald dies peacefully Friday morning

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    Norway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89, the Norwegian Royal House announced in a press release. King Harald passed away peacefully at Rikshospitalet on Friday, August 28, at 06:35. He was hospitalized on August 17 and treated for the blood disease hemolytic anemia and a bacterial infection in the blood. Prime […]

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  • Dementia assessment in Denmark takes 174 days, despite rules saying 30

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    It takes an average of 174 days to be assessed for dementia, despite rules stating it must happen within 30 days of a doctor’s referral. Mads Duedahl, chairman of Danish Regions, calls the wait “completely unacceptable” as patients worsen while waiting. Although assessments rose from 7,938 in 2016 to 11,790 last year, demand is increasing. […]

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  • Copenhagen ready to send Ukrainians to Jutland

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    Copenhagen Municipality is ready to send more displaced Ukrainians to Jutland, Mayor of Employment, Integration, and Business Andreas Keil wrote in a letter to five Jutland mayors. “If you have the opportunity to accept a number of displaced Ukrainians, it would be a great help for Copenhagen,” Keil wrote, adding that this would contribute to […]

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  • Summer’s last weekend will be wet and windy

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    Grey weather, rain, and wind will mark the year’s last summer weekend, says Klaus Larsen, duty officer at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). Friday brings rain moving across Denmark from the southwest, with thunder, a risk of local cloudbursts, and moderate to strong winds. Saturday starts with showers that may initially bring thunder, but glimpses […]

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  • Denmark and Germany demand cuts in new EU budget

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    Denmark and five other EU countries—Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Sweden—demand that the European Commission’s proposed 2028–2034 multiannual budget of nearly 2,000 billion euros be reduced by hundreds of billions of euros. According to their joint statement, all spending areas must contribute to the cuts. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that the Commission’s proposal […]

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  • Vulnerable paper vendors still feel COVID challenges

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    Hus Forbi, an organization supporting vulnerable and homeless people in Denmark, has stabilized its financial situation on its 30th anniversary after previously risking closure. Measures over the past four years included raising the newspaper’s price from 30 to 50 kroner, receiving political support, and receiving a 20-million-kroner inheritance donation. Vulnerable sellers earn half the revenue […]

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  • 3,000 join farmers’ protest over new Fertilizer Law

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    Up to 3,000 people have registered for a large meeting for farmers and food companies on Monday in Odense. The industry organization Landbrug & Fødevarer writes this in a press release. The purpose is to demonstrate the industry’s dissatisfaction with a new fertilization law currently being processed in Christiansborg. Here, new rules are expected to […]

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  • FCK and FCM get good Conference League seeding

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    Denmark is sending four teams to the Conference League league phase this autumn, where six rounds will be played. The draw takes place on Friday at 13:00. FC Copenhagen and FC Midtjylland are in seeding pots 1 and 2, respectively, while AGF and FC Nordsjælland are in pot 5. The Danish teams cannot draw each […]

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  • Government predicts higher home prices next year

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    According to the government’s Economic Survey, housing prices have risen sharply in recent years, and the trend will not stop immediately. House prices are projected to increase by 6.5 percent this year and by 3.5 percent in 2027, as slightly higher interest rates dampen price growth. For owner-occupied apartments, price increases are expected to slow […]

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  • Heavy rain may bring strong winds and thunder

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    A major rainstorm is moving across Denmark from Friday night and morning, potentially delivering 30 to 50 millimeters of precipitation through Saturday. According to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), the rain may be accompanied by thunder and strong winds, with gusts up to storm force, particularly in the Kattegat region. A category 1 warning for […]

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  • Von der Leyen visits Greenland with Mette Frederiksen

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    The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is traveling to Greenland with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. The two top politicians will visit Greenland on September 6 and 7, reports the media outlet Euractiv. According to the plan, the leaders are to meet there with the Greenlandic head of government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. […]

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  • DSB’s delay compensation more than doubled this year

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    Passengers delayed by more than 30 minutes when traveling with DSB can receive compensation through the travel time guarantee. According to DSB’s financial report for the first half of 2026, the company paid out around 67 million kroner following delays caused by track work, severe winter weather, signal failures, and other disruptions. This is 39 […]

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  • News round up

    Danish state pension to rise above DKK 200,000 in 2027

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    According to an executive order from the Ministry of Finance, Danish public transfer incomes such as the state pension will increase. For 2027, the rate adjustment percentage is 2.6 percent, with pensioners receiving an additional 0.3 percentage points due to the abolition of the rate adjustment pool. Consequently, a single pensioner receiving the full pension […]

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  • Employment keeps rising: 3,600 more jobs in June

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    Employment continues to be a solid cornerstone of the Danish economy, reaching 3,091,300 people in paid work in June. According to Statistics Denmark, this is 3,600 more than the previous month and 34,400 more than in June last year. The private sector accounted for 2,300 of the new jobs, with the remainder created in the […]

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  • Light rail and car crash in Lyngby 5 days after opening

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    On Thursday morning around 07:20, a collision between a car and the light rail in Lyngby caused traffic problems at the intersection of Nybrovej and Buddingevej. Police stated the accident likely occurred because the driver ran a red light, after which the light rail struck the side of the car. The driver was examined on-site […]

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  • Danish Parliament has approved compensation for Greenlandic women who had IUDs

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    With a large majority, the Danish Parliament has approved a compensation of 300,000 kroner to Greenlandic women who for decades had IUDs inserted without consent or sufficient consent. The case concerns girls and women who had IUDs inserted by the Danish state from 1960 to 1991, a practice that continued for a period after Greenland […]

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  • Media: Government raises Danish economic outlook

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    The Danish government expects the Danish economy to grow by 3.7 percent this year, according to TV 2 ahead of the publication of the Economic Survey. This growth is supported by strong exports from the largest companies, rising employment, and significant progress in real wages. Morten Granzau Nielsen, deputy director at the Confederation of Danish […]

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  • Big drop in hours with negative electricity prices

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    When electricity supply heavily exceeds demand, electricity prices can turn negative. However, the number of hours with negative electricity prices has fallen in 2026 for the first time since 2022. According to energy group Norlys, Denmark’s two price areas have registered 274 hours with negative prices so far this year, compared to 629 at this […]

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  • Law bans residency for draft-age Ukrainian men

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    On Thursday, the Danish Parliament is expected to pass a bill making it significantly harder for Ukrainian men aged 23 to 60 subject to Ukraine’s mobilization rules to obtain residency in Denmark. Minister for Immigration and Integration Morten Bødskov stated that Danish residency rules should not be used to avoid mobilization and undermine Ukraine’s war […]

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  • Survey: Queue for child psychiatry starts as early as nursery

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    According to a new survey from the trade union BUPL, nearly every second pedagogue (46 percent, up from 35 percent in 2023) has children in their group waiting for support and guidance from PPR (Pædagogisk Psykologisk Rådgivning). More than one in four have experienced waiting times of at least six months, and 17 percent have […]

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  • Competition Council wants Wolt fined for law breach

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    Following an investigation, the Danish Competition Council concluded that the food delivery platform Wolt violated the competition act by “abusing its dominant position” in the market in three different ways, according to a press release from the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority. The Council has decided to bring the case before the courts with a […]

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  • Danish Prime Minister expects price cuts from VAT measures

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    Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is convinced that food, fruit, and vegetable prices will drop correspondingly with the government’s planned VAT reductions. Following a meeting with Salling Group, she stated that supermarkets expect VAT cuts to translate directly into lower consumer prices, though she hopes producers will follow suit. The proposal to remove VAT on fruit […]

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  • 118,000 women face partner violence in Denmark each year

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    A 40-year-old man is charged in the Court of Aarhus with fatal violence against his cohabitant; he admits to assaulting her prior to her death but denies causing it. In Denmark, 118,000 women are subjected to violence by a current or former partner annually, placing the country in the top 10 in Europe for partner […]

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  • Defence Minister to raise conscript pay in Greenland

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    Minister of Defence Jeppe Bruus wants to increase the allowance for conscripts deployed to Greenland. Conscripts currently receive a daily allowance of between 14 and 17 kroner, compared to approximately 1,200 kroner for permanently employed soldiers. Bruus emphasized that conscripts will not receive the exact same conditions as permanent staff, but he wants to raise […]

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  • Mette F. defends IUD compensation before reports

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    Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated it is purely a coincidence that a bill regarding compensation for Greenlandic women fitted with an IUD without consent is to be passed the day before two reports on the IUD case are published. The Greenlandic government will publish the two reports on Friday, addressing legal responsibility and potential genocide […]

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  • AL Sydbank has cut over 300 staff since New Year

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    The banking group AL Sydbank, formed by the merger of Sydbank, Arbejdernes Landsbank, and Vestjysk Bank, had 3,888 employees at the end of June—a decrease of 343 since the new year. According to the bank’s first half-year report, CEO Mark Luscombe explained that the reduction stems from two rounds of layoffs in the first quarter, […]

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  • 5 Jutland mayors oppose the government on Ukrainian refugees

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    Five Jutlandic mayors are contradicting the government’s narrative regarding why some Ukrainian refugees should be denied residency. The government is adjusting the special law so refugees from central and western Ukraine may not necessarily receive Danish residency, with Minister for Immigration and Integration Morten Bødskov explaining that several municipalities are under too much pressure. However, […]

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  • FCK moves women’s derby against Brøndby to Parken

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    FC Copenhagen announced on its website that the women’s derby against Brøndby on 3 October has been moved to the national arena, Parken. The venue has hosted local derbies between the clubs’ men’s teams for decades. FCK’s women’s team has played in Parken once before, facing Næstved HG in 2025 in front of 18,096 spectators. […]

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  • Parliament priest chaos: Copenhagen Bishop reacts

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    On June 30, the Danish Parliament announced that it would have an associated priest in the new year. However, the Bishop of Copenhagen, Peter Skov-Jakobsen, stated to Radio IIII that no agreement had actually been reached at that time. He also clarified that Speaker of the Parliament Søren Gade had initiated contact about the arrangement […]

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  • DMI warns of heavy rain between 30-50 mm on Friday

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    Heavy rain, which may also be accompanied by thunder, is expected from Friday morning until Saturday morning, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) warned on its website. The warning applies for 24 hours starting Friday at 08:00, with between 30 and 50 millimeters of rain expected, and potentially over 24 millimeters within six hours. It remains […]

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  • News round up

    Rail operator plans Copenhagen-Brussels night train with stops in several European cities

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    A new night train could connect Copenhagen directly with Brussels from spring 2028, according to Dutch-Belgian train company European Sleeper. The company says the planned service would run between Malmö and Brussels, with stops in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Antwerp. European Sleeper is working with German railway company RDC on the route. The […]

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  • Denmark to join Eurovision despite Dutch boycott

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    DR expects to participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest despite the Netherlands’ announced boycott. According to Gustav Lützhøft, head of editorial at DR, Eurovision remains an important event for DR and the Danish audience, and Denmark clearly expects to participate. This announcement follows Dutch broadcaster Avrotros’ decision to boycott next year’s contest in Burgas, […]

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  • PM brushes off VAT critique; expects lower food prices

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    Economists have heavily criticized the Danish government’s proposal to remove VAT on fruit and vegetables and lower food VAT generally, warning it is an expensive and ineffective measure that will cost 17.4 billion kroner annually. However, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed the criticism, stating that VAT cuts lowered food prices in Sweden and Norway and […]

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  • News round up

    SIRI updates study material for Danish citizenship test ahead of November exam

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    Denmark has updated the official study material used to prepare for the citizenship test, with new information on political developments and other changes from the past year. SIRI, the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration, announced on August 25 that the preparation material for the Indfødsretsprøven, Denmark’s citizenship test, has been revised from the […]

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  • News round up

    Climate minister distances herself from Lolland gas pipeline – project in jeopardy

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    Following the announced closure of the Nakskov sugar factory, Climate Minister Samira Nawa has criticized the decision to build a gas pipeline to Lolland, calling it an outdated mindset. Owner Nordzucker announced the factory will close in 2027 due to sugar overcapacity, cutting around 150 jobs while retaining its facility in Nykøbing Falster. Nawa emphasized […]

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  • Mayor after sugar plant closure: There is work for affected employees

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    German company Nordzucker has announced that it will close the sugar factory in Nakskov on Lolland, affecting up to 150 jobs from 2027 due to persistent overcapacity in the European sugar industry. Sugar beets have been processed at the factory for over 140 years. Mayor Marie-Louise Brehm Nielsen called the closure sad and “a punch […]

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  • Global ocean temperatures hit record high

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    According to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), a record-high ocean surface temperature of 21.1 degrees was measured on August 22, surpassing the previous record of 21.09 degrees from March 2024. Global warming is the main underlying cause, while the natural weather phenomenon El Niño also contributes to rising temperatures. DMI notes that record-high temperatures in […]

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  • World Cup screening assault: Man stays behind bars

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    A 31-year-old man detained for assaulting a Swedish man at a World Cup big-screen event in Copenhagen has agreed to extend his pre-trial detention by four weeks. He is charged with knocking down a 32-year-old off-duty Swedish police officer, who hit his head during the fall and died from his injuries. Two other men, aged […]

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  • Flower sets drive double-digit growth for Lego

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    Lego started the year with growth on both its top and bottom lines. In the first half of the year, the company achieved a revenue of 41.9 billion DKK, a 21 percent increase compared to the same period in 2025. Lego earned 8.6 billion DKK after tax, representing a 32 percent increase year-over-year. The company […]

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  • Nakskov Sugar Factory closes after 144 years

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    Nordzucker, which owns Nordic Sugar, will close its sugar factory in Nakskov on Lolland, affecting up to 150 jobs from 2027. Sugar production is scheduled to end in January 2027 after the ongoing harvest and processing are completed, after which the facilities will function as a sugar packaging site. According to Nordzucker, the decision addresses […]

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  • Plan for designated chaplain in Parliament meets resistance

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    Liberal Alliance’s member of the Folketing’s Presidium, Lars-Christian Brask, stated that his party cannot support attaching a priest to the Folketing. Although the Presidium announced in June that it had unanimously accepted an offer from the Bishop of Copenhagen to make priests available to members, Brask now claims no agreement was reached, saying he was […]

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