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  • Seven out of ten women experience unwanted sexual attention

    Seven out of ten women experience unwanted sexual attention

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Among young women between 16 and 24, nine out of ten have been exposed to at least one unpleasant experience in the past 12 months. The Minister for Equality is shocked by “wild figures”.

  • Integration Minister: Stop ‘un-Danish’ gender-segregated swimming

    Integration Minister: Stop ‘un-Danish’ gender-segregated swimming

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    “Gender-segregated swimming is foreign to Denmark and undermines integration. We must not let Middle Eastern norms dictate how we design our public spaces,” said the Integration Minister. Plus, the Defence Intelligence Service will investigate a possible information leak in the frigate case which this week resulted in the Minister of Defence firing the Chief of Defence, the Danish Tour de France champion has crashed during a race, breaking several bones, and economists predict a drop in apartment prices in Copenhagen.

  • Controversial Israeli arms purchase is significantly over budget

    Controversial Israeli arms purchase is significantly over budget

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    The Ministry of Defence has announced that weapons purchased from the Israeli manufacturer Elbit could cost up to a billion kroner more than expected. It’s the latest controversy to emerge in the drawn-out and scandal-hit deal.

  • NATO celebrates 75 years in the shadow of war

    NATO celebrates 75 years in the shadow of war

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    As the war in Ukraine rolls into it’s third year, NATO is turning 75 with a celebration at its headquarters in Brussels. The Danish Foreign Minister calls NATO “sharper than ever”. Plus, opioids have been assessed as the most dangerous drugs in Denmark, private sector wages are rising at their fastest rate since the 1980s, and a Denmark’s sports clubs report record membership.

  • Danish Defence Minister fires Chief of Defence

    Danish Defence Minister fires Chief of Defence

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    Denmark’s Defense Minister has fired the Chief of Defence over his alleged failure to inform the minister of weapons-system inadequacies aboard the Danish warship Iver Huitfeldt, which was targeted by a drone attack on 9 March.

  • Missed shots – Chief of Defence’s future hangs in balance

    Missed shots – Chief of Defence’s future hangs in balance

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    The fact that the frigate Iver Huitfeldt did not have an up-to-date weapon system and that the Minister of Defense was not informed about it has thrown the defense into a serious crisis. This is happening as the negotiations to invest up to DKK 200 billion kroner in Danish defense is due

  • It’s officially spring: Famous ‘Cherry Alley’ blooms in Copenhagen

    It’s officially spring: Famous ‘Cherry Alley’ blooms in Copenhagen

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    The pink cherry blossom trees – the annual mark of spring in Copenhagen – have come into bloom, and the city’s most famous spot to enjoy them is the ‘Cherry Alley’ at Bispebjerg Cemetery. Plus, a “folk festival” will accompany the opening of the new metro line to Valby on 22 June, the first Danish hospital to use AI in cancer treatment has halved its rate of post-surgery complications, and Danish stock exchange wealth is at its highest level ever.

  • Danish warship in combat with outdated weapons – fast help promised to young people in distress

    Danish warship in combat with outdated weapons – fast help promised to young people in distress

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    Danish soldiers are in danger because the weapons system on their ship is outdated. Children and young people in distress or with possible diagnoses must get help more sooner. Heavy rain falls in an otherwise dry month

  • Danish politicians slam ‘shortsighted’ delay of EU Nature Restoration Law

    Danish politicians slam ‘shortsighted’ delay of EU Nature Restoration Law

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    Hungary’s last-minute move to block a seminal EU law on nature restoration has been met with outrage and disappointment from Danish politicians and environmental organisations.

  • Pusher Street will be dug up this week – should the name be changed?

    Pusher Street will be dug up this week – should the name be changed?

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    On April 6, Pusher Street in Christiania will be dug up and hash stalls permanently removed. The government has allocated millions to redevelop the area. Now, local residents are mulling whether it’s time to change the name of the infamous street – but “strong feelings” are at play.

  • Municipalities hesitate with unpopular ban on wood-burning stoves

    Municipalities hesitate with unpopular ban on wood-burning stoves

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    Despite decades of evidence for the carcinogenic effects of using wood-burning stoves, they remain the only non-taxable form of energy in the Viking country of Denmark. Plus, “prolonged intense” rain is about to hit the country, a citizens’ proposal on Denmark’s duty to prevent the Gaza genocide reaches 50,000 signatures, and Argentina is buying Denmark’s surplus F-16 jets for DKK 2.21 billion.

  • Large pro-Palestinian demonstration in Copenhagen

    Large pro-Palestinian demonstration in Copenhagen

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    At one of the capital’s biggest pro-Palestine demonstrations for weeks, and coinciding with Palestinians’ annual Land Day, thousands demanded political action from the Danish government, an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a boycott of Israel-aligned companies.