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    Public sector services increasingly scrapping Dankort payment method

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    The Dankort has been scrapped as a means of payment in several places in the public sector, reports Politiken.The school meals scheme in Copenhagen, for example, can now only be paid for with Visa or Mastercard.According to digitization manager in the children and youth administration Mette Enel Ugelvig, the administration has evaluated that the payments […]

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    Royal Theatre makes major changes to ballet school after maltreatment claims

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    The Royal Theatre has announced major changes to its 250-year-old ballet education programme to combat discontent and eating disorders amongst its artists – including abolishing the entire five first year groups of study and accepting only older students, writes Politiken.The annual skill tests in which failure can result in exclusion will also be removed, and […]

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    Parliamentary season opens with all talk and no action on pension age

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Danish politics is officially underway again with the opening of Folketinget this week.In her opening speech, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen focused on social policy and poor conditions for the homeless. However, it is unlikely to be the main theme at Thursday’s opening debate, which traditionally lasts the whole day and evening.The opposition is rarely united, […]

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    September was the busiest month ever in the Metro

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    The Copenhagen Post

    The metro in Copenhagen had 11.2 million passengers in September, the highest number for a single month ever, Metroselskabet states in a press release.“The five new stations on the M4 have been very well received. In the first period, there were twice as many passengers as expected,” says Hanne Tærsbøl Schmidt, director of Metroselskabet.Sunday 15 […]

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    Swedish media: Attacks against embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen ordered by criminal gang

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    According to SVT (Swedish Television), the attacks against the Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen have been carried out on behalf of the Swedish criminal gang known as the “Foxtrot” network.On Tuesday evening, there was a shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm. The case is being investigated as serious weapons offences, causing danger to […]

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    Three Swedish men arrested after explosions near Israeli embassy

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Copenhagen Police have arrested three people in connection with two explosions at the Israeli embassy Wednesday morning, Ritzau reports.Two men were arrested at Copenhagen Central Station, where the police investigated a suspicious event on Wednesday.A person was arrested earlier in the day by the police elsewhere in Copenhagen.According to Chief Police Inspector Jens Jespersen, the […]

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    Danish wolf population grows by at least 35 new pups in 2024

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    At least six of the eight wolf pairs living in Denmark have had puppies in 2024, writes the Natural History Museum in Aarhus in a press release.In total, there are at least 35 new pups – more than double the 14 that were born in 2023. Researchers from the museum and Aarhus University monitor Danish […]

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    Copenhagen Airport has busiest September ever

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    2.8 million passengers traveled via Copenhagen Airport in September 2024 – the highest number on record for September, according to a press release issued by the airport on Wednesday.This September saw 11 percent more passengers than the same month last year, and slightly more than during September 2019, pre-COVID times.Commercial director at Copenhagen Airport Peter […]

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    Two explosions reported near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen

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    Two explosions have been reported, and no injuries, near the Israeli embassy in Hellerup in northern Copenhagen on Wednesday morning, Copenhagen Police state in a post on X.“Based on two explosions, we are present in the Strandagervej/Lundevangsvej area. No one has been injured, and we are carrying out the initial investigations at the scene”“A possible […]

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    New parliamentary term opens today after summer recess

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    On the first Tuesday in October, the Danish government’s new parliamentary term officially begins after summer recess.The day entails a programme of events at Christiansborg houses of parliament in Copenhagen for MPs, ministers and royalty, where Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will deliver the annual opening speech.First, a 10AM church service will take place in Christiansborg […]

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    Extreme weather pushes up home insurance prices in Denmark

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    At Denmark’s three largest insurance institutions, home insurance prices have increased by over 20 percent in the past year, according to a sample survey by the consumer organisation Forbrugerrådet Tænk for TV2.The association for insurance companies Forsikring & Pension says the rising rates are due to the weather.Copenhagen -based insurance agency Alm. Brand explains that […]

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    Denmark’s GDP growth overshoots estimates in first quarter

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    Danish economy grew more than previously assumed in the second quarter.This is shown by Danmarks Statistik, after more figures for Danish imports and exports have come out.The gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.1 percent in the second quarter compared to the first quarter.That’s an upward adjustment of 0.5 percentage points compared to the first […]

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