Today’s front pages – Friday, April 19

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

Vulnerable paying for growth plan

Employment Minister Mette Frederiksen (Socialdemokraterne) and the government have managed to raise 40 million extra kroner a year for their growth plan by giving vulnerable youths who are on social benefits (kontanthjælp) minimal benefit amounts for up to three months. The total savings of the kontanthjælp reform secures the state about 1.1 billion kroner annually. There was also political agreement reached yesterday on reform of the student stipend programme, SU. The Copenhagen Post will have details have both reform deals later today. – Politiken

Socialdemokraterne criticise Corydon’s tax cuts

Members of Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon’s own Socialdemokraterne (S) party have criticised his plans to reduce corporate taxes. Corydon has pointed to Sweden when calling for a reduction in corporate taxes, but the S members argued that in Sweden, it is the companies that will pay large parts of their own tax cuts, while Corydon’s plan relies on funding found through cuts in the public sector. – Jyllands-Posten

Massive solar panel plant opening in Copenhagen

Water waste management company Lynettefællesskabet has constructed a solar panel plant with nearly 3,000 panels that will produce 740,000 kilowatts per year. The 2,932 solar panels make the plant, which will open on April 30 in Sydhavn, the largest in northern Europe. – Ingeniøren

Economists hail education focus

The government’s attempts to encourage more young people to get an education have attracted praise from a number of economists. Andreas Højbjerre from the think-tank Kraka praised the government's efforts, saying that it is in the state's financial interest to get young people to complete their educations as swiftly as possible. – Berlingske

Companies forsake unemployed

Companies looking to hire new workers generally ignore the 160,000 unemployed Danes and have instead focused on hiring people who are already working. A number of recruiting companies said that businesses are increasingly aware that it is expensive to train new employees rather than hire an already skilled one. – Ekstra Bladet

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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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