Today’s front pages – Tuesday, March 26

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

Rubbish is piling up in the streets

Used pizza boxes, hot dog wrappers, empty cigarette packs and other bits of rubbish are piling up on the country’s streets and sidewalks. According to a Politiken Research survey of the nation’s 98 councils, only two of the 44 that answered said that the amount of garbage on the streets was lower than five years ago. The survey also showed that the 44 councils were not spending more money on cleaning up – about 350 million kroner a year – than they were two years ago. – Politiken

Is Denmark getting ugly?

Lars Juel Thiis, the head of the state's art fund, Statens Kunstfond, has argued that the architectonic landscape in Denmark is on the demise, Jyllands-Posten newspaper wrote. Thiis criticised various councils for lacking an architectural policy and for allowing cheap and ugly buildings to be constructed, particularly next to motorways. Thiis pointed to several examples along the E45 motorway, a row of cheap concrete buildings in Hedensted and a Boeing 727 airplane placed near the highway in Skanderborg. – Jyllands-Posten

Rejsekort cost in the billions now

The travel card, Rejsekort, which was supposed to revolutionise public transport but instead turned into a long-delayed project that has left commuters unsatisfied, has now cost national rail operators DSB over a billion kroner, according to their annual report from 2012. But the true cost of the beleaguered Rejsekort, which was delayed for years with problems the Transport Ministry attempted to cover up, is unclear because DSB only own 50.5 percent of the Rejsekort A/S stocks. Experts speculate that the overall cost of the Rejsekort is well over two billion kroner. – Ingeniøren

Danes big fans of authority

The demand for people to respect societal authorities in Denmark has been on a sharp rise over the past ten years, according to the European Values Study. The study, which compared data from all over Europe from 1981 to today, showed that Danish citizens, more than most in Europe, yearn for a higher level of respect for the nation’s authorities, rising from 38 percent in 1999 to 63 percent in 2008. The demand for authority is still higher in countries such as Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, but the percentage has always been high in those countries when compared to Denmark. – Kristeligt-Dagblad




  • 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.


  • 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.