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    New teachers are leaving posts in public schools sooner

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Newly educated teachers are leaving their posts in public schools after a shorter employment time than their older colleagues did.This is reported by Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE) on the basis of data from Statistics Denmark, writes Ritzau.Barely a fifth of the teachers who graduated in 2018 and immediately after got a job in the public school […]

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    European Central Bank reduces interest rates for first time in five years – Danish housing market set to pick up

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    The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday confirmed a reduction on interest rates from a record high 4 percent, where it had been since September 2023, to 3.75 percent. It is the first time since 2019 that the ECB has lowered interest rates, and the first time since 2012 that 0.25 percentage points have been cut […]

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    Denmark elected to the UN Security Council for 2025-2026

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    Twenty years after Denmark last held a seat on the UN Security Council, the country will be returning as a member of the world’s most powerful bodies on 1 January 2025. On Thursday, Denmark was been elected to the Security Council together with Somalia, Pakistan, Panama and Greece. Its membership will run from 1 January […]

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    Social Democratic EP candidate on his own with ambitious climate proposal

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    The Copenhagen Post

    In an otherwise quiet election campaign, one of the Social Democratic candidates and current EP member, Niels Fuglsang, is making headlines.A few days before the election on Sunday, he proposes that all Danish homes by 2035 must have at least energy label E.It will affect around 400,000 single-family houses in Denmark, which must be renovated […]

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    Denmark beat Sweden in the penultimate test before Euro 24

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Euro 24 starts in Germany on Friday 14 June.Denmark is yet again part of the action and aiming to repeat the success from 2021, when the red and whites reached the semi-finals.The squad from those glory days is largely intact. Last night they Denmark beat neighbors Sweden 2-1 in the penultimate test match before the […]

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    Royal couple cancels Faroe Islands visit due to strike

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    An extensive week-long strike in the Faroe Islands has caused the Danish royal couple’s planned two-day visit to be put on hold indefinitely.The Faroese minister Aksel V. Johannesen has decided to postpone the trip, as it is not “appropriate to hold a visit under the current circumstances”, according to an email from the Faroese government […]

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    Three young men imprisoned for stabbing 17-year-old woman

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    The court in Nykøbing Falster has remanded in custody three young men aged 17 and 18 for four weeks after a 17-year-old woman was stabbed with a knife last night at a college in Nykøbing Falster.The young woman was stabbed at least twice, with one near-fatal wound piercing her lung, according to Ritzau. She airlifted […]

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    Mystery Eurojackpot winner of DKK 760 million yet to come forward – bought ticket in Østerbro

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    A very lucky Copenhagener won DKK 760,818,030 in the Eurojackpot yesterday. It is the biggest prize ever in Denmark – but the winner is yet to come forward.On Wednesday, Danske Spil announced that the winner bought the ticket at 7-Eleven at Trianglen in Copenhagen.“There must be a huge congratulations to the lucky Dane. We would […]

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    Government raises Danish citizenship application fee – politicians praise “strict rules”

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    The fee for foreign citizens applying for Danish citizenship will be raised as part of a new agreement put through by the government and Liberal Alliance.It currently costs DKK 4,000 to apply for Danish citizenship through naturalization. Under the new agreement, the fee is raised to DKK 6,000.Currently, when an applicant is rejected, they can […]

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    Danes divided on whether Denmark should aim for higher 2030 climate goals

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    Lotte van den Hout

    In April, Denmark announced it was close to hitting its 2030 climate goals of reducing 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared with 1990s levels.

    According to the government’s Annual Climate Status and Projection report, if current efforts continue, Denmark will achieve a 68 percent reduction by 2030.

    The Climate Council says that the government should aim higher than its 70 percent goal. In May, the organisation argued that a buffer would reduce the risk of expensive last minute actions in order to reach the goal.

    According to a new survey by Epinion for DR, Danes are divided on the suggestion.

    Of 1,076 respondents, when asked whether Denmark should set a higher 2030 goal, 43 percent yes, 36 percent said no, and 19 percent do not know.

    Younger generations in particular said the that the goal should be raised.

    The current coalition government pledged when it was elected in 2022 to shift the net-zero target year from 2050 to 2045, and to create new climate goals along the way.

    But the Minister of Climate, Energy and Supply, Lars Aagaard, wrote to DR that it’s important to know for sure that the goals will be reached, before talking about new goals.

    He added that agricultural emissions need to come down and that climate efforts in general must be strengthened in the lead up to 2030 as success is by no means guaranteed, given the unpredictability of climate forecasting.

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    Danish fact-checking media exposed to large-scale Russian influence attack

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    The Danish fact-checking media TjekDet, together with more than 800 media, organizations and individuals, has been the target of a large-scale Russian influence attack.The attack was detailed in a new report by the Finnish software and analysis agency CheckFirst and the NGO Reset, writes TjekDet in a pressrelease.The attack has been dubbed ‘Operation Overload’ because its approach was to […]

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    Copenhagen politicians want a tourist tax on overnight stays

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    Tourists should have to pay a tourism tax on overnight stays in Copenhagen, according to the city’s politicians.A political majority in the Danish capital have voted in favour of introducing a model, similar to existing legislation in Italian cities, where travellers must pay a small sum to the state for each private stay.The municipality’s finance […]

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