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    Roskilde line up announced – Rejsekortet soon to be launched as an app

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    The Copenhagen Post

    The program is in place for this year’s Rokilde Festival. The police believes that weed trade on Pusher Street is a thing of the past. Rejsekortet will soon be available as an app and the tax authorities are using AI to monitor citizens

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    Who uses slimming drugs?

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    In 2023, 2.4 percent of the adult population in Denmark redeemed a slimming drug prescription. New figures throw light on users’ gender, age, marital status, income and location. Plus a report finds mink breeders have been overcompensated for corona losses, a new long-distance bus terminal is opening in Copenhagen on 4 June, and the Eurasian Spoonbill returns, to the delight of many, to breed on the artificial Øresund Bridge island.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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