Today’s front pages – Monday, April 15

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

Young Olesen becomes The Master

Young Danish golf prodigy Thorbjørn Olesen finished tied for sixth place at The Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia smashing Thomas Bjørn’s record for the top Danish performance at The Masters. Based on the last three days of the tournament, Olesen would have won the tournament, but a sluggish 78 on the opening day was a blemish on his four-under-par tournament finish. A strong 68 on the final day saw him finish one stroke behind Tiger Woods and five strokes off the lead. The result means that Olesen has already qualified for next year’s Masters because he finished within the top 12. – Ekstra Bladet

Ninth grade classes at serious risk

It will be difficult to provide ninth graders with the minimum hours they require to take their graduating examinations after the lockout. So many hours have now been cancelled due to the teacher lockout, which is entering its third week, that a number of schools and councils have admitted that it will be difficult to hold exams now. Experts had predicted that the lockout would only last a week or two, but there still is no solution in sight with both sides refusing to compromise. – Politiken

Europe’s climate battle hanging by a thread

Europe’s role as a leader in the battle for the earth's climate relies on the European Parliament agreeing to climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard’s plan for the EU’s CO2 quotas. According to Berlingske newspaper, the voting will be tight and Europe’s climate policy could collapse if the EU’s quota system for the release of greenhouse gases is not approved. The quota system means that companies can purchase quotas that give them the right to pollute. – Berlingske

Council reforms affecting the weak

Since the council reforms took place in 2007, assistance for the weak and handicapped has fallen drastically according to a new survey. The survey, compiled by Gallup, showed that of the 1,573 Danes asked, only six percent said that council service has improved after the reforms, while 49 percent believe that service has worsened. The survey was conducted at the behest of a number of organisations including the FOA union, handicap advocates Danske Handicaporganisationer, and social educators' union Socialpædagogerne. – Kristeligt-Dagblad

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  • 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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