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  • 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.

  • Remember to set the clock forward one hour tonight

    Remember to set the clock forward one hour tonight

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    All countries in the EU – including Denmark – switch to summertime and brighter nights. The richest people in Denmark own a quarter of the total wealth – and the cherry trees are about to pop in many places in Copenhagen

  • Copenhagen Fashion Week becomes first in Europe to ban wild-animal skins

    Copenhagen Fashion Week becomes first in Europe to ban wild-animal skins

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    CPHFW has banned the use of skins and feathers from wild animals on the runway, making Denmark only the second country in the world to do so. Plus, Danish chocolate brands are raising prices as the cost of cocoa beans skyrockets, and Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor has issued a joint call with counterparts in 30 global cities for more generous green-transition funding from development banks.

  • Armed Forces will favour women and minorities in new recruitment drive

    Armed Forces will favour women and minorities in new recruitment drive

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    The Danish Armed Forces has drafted a new diversity strategy that will give priority to women and ethnic-minority applicants for certain jobs.

  • Venstre backbenchers split over CO2 tax

    Venstre backbenchers split over CO2 tax

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    Venstre is one of the key negotiating parties in the green tripartite tasked with landing Denmark’s seminal CO2 tax on agriculture production. But a recent poll of party members found that half of them “do not at all” believe a tax should be implemented. Plus, Denmark plans to invest in a Ukrainian artillery factory, and Danish researchers embark on a project to make plastic from captured CO2.

  • Municipality tries ‘blind recruitment’ to combat bias

    Municipality tries ‘blind recruitment’ to combat bias

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    Vejle Municipality is running an experiment where job applicants are received completely anonymously. Plus, the pharmaceutical industry is driving the Danish economy forward, and more than 800 shops have signed up to donate their surplus food at various pickup points this Easter.

  • Denmark’s new multi-billion state-funded gas plant dents green reputation

    Denmark’s new multi-billion state-funded gas plant dents green reputation

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    TotalEnergies’ new DKK 27 billion gas-extraction project in the Danish North Sea, part funded by the government, profits an elite few at the cost of climate. Though largely invisible in national media, the project dents Denmark’s reputation as a vanguard of the green transition.

  • Maersk is “horrified” by bridge collapse

    Maersk is “horrified” by bridge collapse

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    Maersk chartered the container ship that sailed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday morning, causing it to collapse.

  • Minister of Food: Denmark is well equipped for a food crisis

    Minister of Food: Denmark is well equipped for a food crisis

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    His reassurance comes as a new study finds seven percent of Danes are moderately to severely worried about food shortages. Plus, SAS made a loss of DKK 1.5 billion in the last three months, a record rainy 2023 hit the masonry industry hard, and HPV protection in Danish society is high.

  • Female internationals find a path to a job they actually are qualified for

    Female internationals find a path to a job they actually are qualified for

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    The ReDi School of Digital Integration program helps and retrains mainly non-Western women who have a digital background for a job in Denmark that corresponds to their qualifications

  • Behind the scenes of Tivoli’s marketing strategy

    Behind the scenes of Tivoli’s marketing strategy

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    David Lose

    Last year, Copenhagen’s historic and renowned amusement park Tivoli made a record turnover. This Easter, the park is building on that success with a major renovation, new gastronomy and a royal collaboration. Here, Tivoli’s commercial director lifts the curtain on how to market a world-famous theme park.

  • New ‘digital task force’ will roll out public sector AI 

    New ‘digital task force’ will roll out public sector AI 

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    “We want to get right to the front with the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector,” the digitization minister said. Plus, new national energy figures show a big rise in solar production and drop in coal, SIRI has updated its salary standards for residency applicants, and the cost of Dankort transactions has risen by 8.9 percent as use of the card plummets.