Today’s front pages – Thursday, March 21

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

Hundreds of S, SF local party members against teacher lockout

Local government association KL's threat to lock out teachers has little support from local Socialdemokraterne (S) and Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) party members. A survey by Politiken Research showed that 56 percent of the 459 local party members from S and SF disagree with KL’s lockout threat and over half disapprove of how KL is negotiating with the teachers' union, Danmarks Lærerforening. However, of the 924 total local party members of all party affiliations, 53 percent sided with KL in the ongoing negotiations. – Politiken

Politician exodus weakening SF

Socialistisk Folkeparti has been severely weakened after a number of its young and promising politicians jumped ship to join Socialdemokraterne. The prime reason for the exodus leaving stems from lingering discontent over current party leader Annette Vilhelmsen's victory over Astrid Krag back in October 2012. Since then the party has been severely weakened by the departures of Mattias Tesfaye, Jesper Petersen, Emilie Turunen, Nanna Westerbye and Kasper Bjerring, to mention a few. – Jyllands-Posten

Danske Bank's suprise sackings

Danske Bank fired the entire leadership of its corporate finance department on Tuesday, including its global head, Anders Bønding. Aside from Bønding, three other directors and an assistant director were also let go. The sackings came a day after the bank’s general assembly and just weeks after the bank also fired Henrik Madsen, who was in charge of equity capital markets. Nicholas Rohde, a banking analyst from investment firm Niro Invest, was surprised, calling the move “dramatic”. – Børsen

More shootings and arrests last night

Three men are being held by police after they were arrested last night for their roles in the latest shooting episode in Copenhagen’s northwest suburbs. A total of six shots were fired on Frederiksborgvej although no-one was hit. The shootings are the latest chapter in the ongoing gang wars currently afflicting Copenhagen. There have been nearly 100 shots fired off in various incidents over the past two weeks. – TV2 News

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    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!

    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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