Today’s front pages – Tuesday, April 9

The Copenhagen Post’s daily digest of what the Danish dailies are reporting on their front pages

Krarup apologises for Maori rant

Marie Krarup (Dansk Folkeparti) has finally apologised for her blog in which she insulted the Maori powhiri ritual which greeted her during her trip to New Zealand with parliament’s defence committee, Forsvarsudvalg. Krarup wrote on her Facebook page that she was “sorry if anyone had been offended” after pressure from DF leaders and the trade minister, Pia Olsen Dyhr (Socialistisk Folkeparti), who said that Denmark would take a financial hit from business partners in New Zealand. DF also formally apologised for the remarks. – DR

Schools: Teachers should work more

There is broad consensus amongst the nation's headteachers for getting rid of the teachers’ collective bargaining agreement and getting them to work more, according to a new survey. The survey, compiled by Jyllands-Posten newspaper, showed that 66 percent of the 672 headteachers contacted by the newspaper want their teachers to use a greater portion of their work hours teaching, while 58 percent of them agree with local government association KL’s demands to scrap the teachers’ current labour agreement. – Jyllands-Posten

Corydon’s man rewarded for trimming wage agreements

One of Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon’s (Socialdemokraterne) right hand men, Niels Gotfredsen, who is head of modernisation authority, Moderniseringsstyrelsen, is eligible for a personal 250,000 kroner bonus every year depending how well he performs in his job. In 2013, Gotfredsen’s central goal is to “free up resources” through changing the collective bargaining agreements of public employees. Anders Bondo Christensen, the head of the teachers’ association Danmarks Lærerforening, said it was “grotesque” that someone taking part in the lockout negotiations could gain personally by sabotaging negotiations. – Politiken

Police won't stop gangs, most believe

A majority of Danes don't believe that the police will be able to take care of the rising gang related violence within the next two to three months, according to a new survey. The survey, undertaken by YouGov for metroXpress newspaper, revealed that 65 percent of Danes don’t have faith that the police will be able to curb the gang shootings that have riddled the capital region in recent months. Michael Hviid Jacobsen, a gang expert from Aalborg University, argued that there have never been more gang members than now, despite police imprisoning 60 members in the last month. – MetroXpress

TOP STORIES

  • 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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