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    Danish Intelligence Service hiring citizens for non-descript “tasks”

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    The Copenhagen Post

    The Defense Intelligence Service (FE) is looking for citizens and companies who will help “solve tasks” of a larger and smaller nature at home and abroad.Everyone who can and wants to help protect Denmark is encouraged to apply, according to FE’s website.There are no requirements for special education or skills. The mission of the citizens […]

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    Gender pay gap still significant in Denmark

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Men continue to get a better pay in the Danish labor market according to new figures from Danmarks Statistik.

    The average wage difference between men and women was 12.4 percent in 2023. This is 0.2 percentage points higher than in 2022.

    The biggest difference is in the regions where women earned an average of DKK 46,313 per month, while men earned DKK 55,177 in 2023.

    In 2004, men on the labor market received 16 percent more pay than women. Still, the path to equal pay is too long, believes Janne Bjaaland, director of people and culture at pension company Velliv.

    “It’s good news that over a number of years women have approached men’s wages. But it is wrong and unsatisfactory that it is still necessary to talk about pay differences between the sexes and partly that in 20 years we have only cut a quarter of the difference,” says Bjaaland to Nordnet.

    The pay gap continues into retirement, where women receive less in pension than men.

    On average, men’s pension assets are 20 per cent. higher than women’s.

    “Unfortunately, we also take the inequality that we continue to fight with in terms of pay into old age. It is yet another argument that we must have solved the structural injustice on equal pay,” says Janne Bjaaland.

    She believes that inequality will change.

    “Today, there are more younger women who are getting longer-term educations. It will contribute to raising women’s wages. More women will take up leadership positions, which have otherwise largely been a man’s business,” she says.

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    Students can be punished with cleaning up after school hours

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    The Copenhagen Post

    From now on, head teachers in primary schools must be able to punish pupils with cleaning up after school hours, and it must be easier to exclude pupils from lessons if necessary.This is announced by the Ministry of Children and Education in a press release.“The public school must be able to accommodate all children, but […]

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    Hjørring man finds hidden weapons stash while renovating new property

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    Bomb disposal officers and police were called to a house in Hjørring on Thursday, where the new property owner had found a hidden stash of weapons and ammunition.Martin Elefsen found four rifles, a machine gun and a significant amount of ammunition in a cavity behind the kitchen cabinets in the house on Bagterpvej in Hjørring, […]

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    Red Bull kitesurfing competition takes over small Danish fishing village

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    The small fishing village of Nørre Vorupør will on 28 September host the Red Bull kitesurfing competition ‘Red Bull King of The Air Qualifier – Cold Hawaii’.This year, the competition will be an official Red Bull event for the first time, which has attracted both the world’s elite kitesurfers and an even larger team of […]

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    Denmark to open embassies in Tunisia and Senegal

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    Denmark will open new embassies in the North African country of Tunisia, West African Senegal, and upgrade its existing office in East African Rwanda to an embassy. “All three of these countries have a strong voice in their region and welcome international cooperation,” wrote the Danish Foreign Ministry in a press release.The Danish government describes Tunisia […]

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    Moderaternes’ party secretary quits after unrest

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    The party secretary of governing party Moderaterne, Kirsten Munch Andersen, is quitting after recent unrest in the party, Ritzau reports.“The moderates and not least the employees deserve to be able to relax at work. This is needed,” says Kirsten Munch Andersen in a press release.She says it is her own decision to stop.Moderaterne fires a […]

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    Queen Mary will visit Brazil next week

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    From Wednesday through Saturday next week, Queen Mary will travel to Manaus and Brasília in Brazil to focus on sustainability, biodiversity and climate, the Royal Palace informs.Among other things, the Queen will visit the Amazon rainforest and its river systems as well as the Brazilian savannah Cerrado.Denmark has previously pledged support for the Amazon Foundation, […]

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    Denmark increases aid payments for world’s poorest developing countries by 40 percent

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    Denmark will increase by 40 percent its contribution to the International Development Association (IDA), a fund under the World Bank that delivers concessional loans and grants to the world’s poorest developing countries.Making the announcement late on Monday evening at the UN General Assembly in New York, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said:“Denmark already makes a […]

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    Now you can use MobilePay to send money to Swedes

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    It is now possible to use the popular payment app MobilPay to send money to Swedes.The app is already well-established in Denmark. In June, it was adopted in Norway and Finland. The latest rollout for Swedish phone numbers means that the four Nordic countries can now send money back and forth across national borders via […]

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    Denmark pays close attention to German migration agreements

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    Germany has made agreements with several countries to attract labor and send rejected citizens back.Recently, Germany has entered into agreements with several countries, such as Kenya, to make it easier to get labor from the countries, writes Berlingske.On the other hand, the country must take care to accept those of its own citizens who have […]

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    Aagard vows to push climate financing on UN General Assembly agenda

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    Denmark’s climate minister Lars Aagaard has said he aims to use the UN General Assembly in New York on 22-23 September to foster better international agreement over a rethink of global climate finance.During the course of the week, he will participate in meetings of high-level delegates, diplomats, and some of the world ‘s most influential […]

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