Author: Denmark Review

A threateningly low birth rate has prompted the government to intervene and increase subsidies for artificial insemination. But now the Rockwool Foundation is here to tell you that there is no reason to panic. Look, that is very positive, writes Bente Klarlund in this column.A PhD student pokes his head in: “Do you have ten minutes?” And yes, I do.As she closes the door behind her, the ten rings, and I have a big smile on my face when she says, “I’m pregnant.”

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The Technical and Environmental Committee at Copenhagen City Hall has agreed to close the city district to gasoline and diesel cars in 2027.If you have an old Kadett with a gasoline engine, you will have to find somewhere else to visit than inner Vesterbro.The Technology and Environment Committee of the Copenhagen City Council has chosen Vesterbro as the first area where, in future, access will be exclusively for zero-emission vehicles.

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The judges prefer the thick consistency and tart vanilla flavor they know from their childhood kitchen. The two best varieties in the test are organic and full of buttermilk nostalgia.When the soft rays of the sun fall on our bare arms, our desire for cold soup increases. Sales start in May, and over the summer they are 100 times higher than in the first cold month of the year. But when the school holidays end, sales come to a sudden halt, says Kristian Herlufsen, who analyzes consumer habits at Coop Analyse:”The transition to everyday life acts as a mental transition…

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The Faroe Islands and Greenland used the national assembly to emphasize their desire for special foreign policy powers. Mette Frederiksen is “accommodating,” was the message.Adjustments and shifts in the realm seem to be a fact of life following the biannual meeting of the realms between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.The Faroese Attorney General, Aksel V. Johannesen, who hosted the meeting, made this very clear to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S).

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Hyundai’s cheap minicar is extremely practical, but its appearance is controversial.I had been driving around in the little, dusty-bright yellow Hyundai Inster for a few days and thought it was incredibly cute.The Korean car is small, short, tall and square like Grandma Duck’s vehicles in the Donald Duck magazines and almost comically narrow and yet, or maybe that’s why, my heart had fallen for the small, practical charmer.

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Two men have been charged with murder in connection with the discovery of the body of a 71-year-old woman in Esbjerg, police say.Two men have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the discovery of a deceased 71-year-old woman in Esbjerg, according to the South and South Jutland Police on X.It is said that these are two men, aged 55 and 84, both from the local area.Earlier Tuesday, the police district announced that it was investigating a suspicious death on Kingosvej in Esbjerg.It is in connection with that death that the two men are charged with murder.The woman’s…

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The Moderates’ party secretary, Britt Bager, denies that there was an attempted bribery when the party offered Mike Fonseca money to leave the Folketing and hand over his mandate.On Tuesday, the Moderates woke up to a new media storm when the media outlet Frihedsbrevet was able to reveal how the Moderates back in 2023 tried to offer the member of parliament Mike Fonseca money to hand over his mandate to the party.The revelations are based on audio recordings that Fonseca secretly recorded and stored. Here, among other things, you can hear how party chairman Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) tries to…

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Søren Lippert will be the director of the think tank Ny Verden and will stop hosting the TV 2 program ‘Lippert’.Former FE and PET head Lars Findsen is behind a new think tank with a focus on foreign policy, security policy and defense.This is what the think tank Ny Verden writes in a press release.Søren Lippert will be the director of the new think tank. Lippert will therefore stop hosting the TV 2 program ‘Lippert’.Lars Findsen came up with the idea for the think tank together with journalist and author Samuel Rachlin.Together with investment advisor Helle Kammann, they have gathered…

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Women become the weak party when they choose to work part-time. Helle Brandt, chairwoman of Danish Family Lawyers, often meets women when they discover how disadvantaged they are.New mothers in large numbers work part-time when the family’s first child is born.By the time the first child is 2 years old, every fifth woman has gone from full-time to part-time, according to an analysis in ‘Status på arbejdmarkedet’, published by the Ministry of Employment.

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