News round up

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    Danish pharma ensures overall GDP growth in 2023

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    The Danish economy saw overall growth of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023, thanks entirely to big pharma, without whom it would have contracted. Plus, business organisations and think tanks voice farm tax support and a baby elephant is born at Copenhagen zoo.

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    Hundreds of thousands of citizens will have income seized by Danish Debt Agency

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    The agency has sent out letters informing that it will seize up to 60 percent of net income from debtors for everything from student loans to parking fines. Plus, Navalny supporters flock to the Russian embassy, Vestas announces a hiring kick on Lolland, and SABA is crowned as Denmark’s Eurovision contestant, as the Israel boycott debate continues.

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    High-earners eat twice as much carbon-costly beef as average Danes

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    The ten percent of Danes who earn the most buy twice as much carbon-costly beef as the average Dane. Parents are still upset at Borup Skole and a new scheme is being launched to combat discrimination in Copenhagen’s nightlife.

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    Danish influencer goes to court for endorsing terrorism in Snapchat video

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    In the video, 26-year-old Ahmad Elchaabi expressed his support for Hamas’ October 7 attack in Israel. Plus, Danish urban planners needs to decide what not to save as sea levels rise, argues an architecture academic, volunteers at a migration departure centre receive the Finn Nørgaard Prize, and new Boligsiden figures show a startling drop in Copenhagen flat prices.

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    Fewer children are born in Denmark – tourists like to visit the North Sea

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    The world’s best football team was too hot to handle for Copenhagen last night. The number of births in Denmark decreases. Tourism is booming on the North Sea, while attractions are closed on Sjælland in the winter

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    1,200 Danish soldiers to join historically large NATO military exercise

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    Denmark is also due to host operations as its location on the Baltic Sea is ‘strategically important for the rapid and flexible reinforcement of NATO in Eastern Europe’. Plus, there’s unrest in Danish athletics, and 2023 saw a record demand for eating disorder and self-harm support services.

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    Ukrainians make up highest proportion of migrants in Denmark

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    Ukrainians accounted for eight percent of all migrations to Denmark in 2023 and have some of the highest employment rates. Plus, Novo’s holding company has huge investment plans, more 20-34-year-olds than ever are taking retirement, and the Nordic Waste landslide is finally stable.

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    “First-of-its-kind” animal welfare agreement tightens breeding rules

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    Its initiatives include bans on breeding dogs for aesthetics, certain types of collar and fast-growing chickens. Plus, a puff-bar ban is on the horizon, and the Danish frigate Iver Huitfeldt arrives in the Red Sea for a risky defence mission.

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    Man stabbed to death in Nørrebro – Maersk stock plummets upon annual report

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    A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death last night after a fight. Maersk’s share plummets after profits dive. Mike Fonseca returns to politics after his underage dating revelation, and municipalities in Nordsjælland are hit hard by burglaries.

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    British research institute ranks Aarhus as world’s happiest city

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    Zurich is second, followed by Vancouver, New York and Geneva. Four Danish cities are part of the top 200, but the ranking has attracted criticism for its methodology. Plus, a new national public health survey finds smoking and mental health are declining, Ørsted makes a big loss in 2023 and announces job cuts, and a Danish diamond heiress is acquitted of adultery in Dubai.

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    Calls for a lobby register after Novo’s closed-door meetings

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    Politicians and researchers have called for transparency after Novo Nordisk invited top public officials to closed-door meetings without minutes. Plus, Denmark is investigating the UNRWA, a Danish supermarket experiment proves fruit and veg is too expensive, and US comedian Trevor Noah is coming to Copenhagen.

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    Lonely Planet names Danish beach 15th best in the world

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    Dueodde beach on Bornholm is rubbing shoulders with The Pass in Byron Bay, Australia and Ipanema Beach in Rio De Janeiro. Plus, heavy rain is coming to Denmark this week, a national sex-ed campaign tackles social media body ideals, and the education and science minister is in the US tightening relations on a Danish-American science strategy.

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