Billions worth of Tesla shares have been sold off by a pension fund that believes the company violates workers’ rights.The Swedish state pension fund AP7 has blacklisted Tesla and sold all its shares in the electric car company.This is reported by the news agency TT.The reason is that AP7 believes that Tesla is violating workers’ rights.”After several years of trying to influence them, we have recognized that we have reached the end of the road,” says Mikael Lindh Hök, head of communications for AP7.”It’s about violations of professional rights in the United States,” he continues.At the turn of the year,…
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On the second day of the People’s Meeting, Mette Frederiksen (S) and Nicolai Wammen (S) will go on a pension tour among petanque players, the Danish Elderly Affairs Association and trade union bosses.If this year’s public meeting participants had gone to Bornholm to finally get Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s (S) plans for how the retirement age will develop in the future, they were in vain.Frederiksen did not get specific here either on one of the issues that has perhaps most clearly divided the three government parties.
The brigade will be the largest military unit in the Danish defense, and it has been postponed several times.The army’s heavy brigade must be built as soon as possible, after its establishment has been postponed several times and promised to be completed ahead of schedule.Therefore, parts of the army’s fist are being brought forward by several years, and a total of 3.5 billion kroner is being spent on things such as ammunition for infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.This is stated in a press release on Friday.”Europe is facing a changed security policy reality, and therefore the building of the Danish…
A 31-year-old man was produced in a constitutional hearing on Friday, charged with recruiting three Swedish teenage boys for assassination missions in Denmark. The hearing took place under heavy security at Copenhagen City Court.There was no doubt how seriously the police took security at Copenhagen City Court on Friday morning.Here, a 31-year-old Iraqi citizen with links to a Swedish criminal environment was produced in a constitutional hearing and charged with having played a role in recruiting three young Swedes for assassination missions in Denmark. He pleads not guilty.
The special law for Ukrainian refugees entered into force in March 2022. On Friday, the special law will be extended until 2027.The government decided on Friday to extend the special law for Ukrainians who have fled during the war in Ukraine and are residing in Denmark.The special law is extended by one year and is now valid until March 2027.This is stated by the Ministry of Immigration and Integration in a press release.The special law allows Ukrainian refugees to work, go to school and use healthcare in Denmark. The law was passed in March 2022.The extension comes after the EU…
A population projection has been criticized for not taking into account that some immigrants have children with people of Danish background. A new projection takes this into account – but it doesn’t change the result much.What will happen to the population in the coming decades if we continue to have children like we do now and have immigration like we do now?Quite a lot, on Monday, as Professor Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen from the University of Southern Denmark has done for Politiken. It shows a scenario where the low fertility causes the number of citizens of Danish origin to shrink so much…
The artificial island of Peberholm, which was established in connection with the Øresund Bridge, should no longer be just a home for birds and nature, says the mayor. He dreams of hotels and holiday homes.For 25 years, the artificial island of Peberholm in the middle of the Øresund Link has been allowed to fend for itself and develop into a popular breeding ground for birds. But if it’s up to the Liberal Party’s Mayor for Employment and Integration in Copenhagen, Jens-Kristian Lütken, the island is to be transformed into a holiday destination with holiday homes, hotels and conference facilities:”It’s a…
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) cannot imagine going back to bloc politics in the current time of crisis, she says at the People’s Assembly, where Trump, Putin and security policy are at the top of the agenda.Mette Frederiksen has had the habit of writing old Shu-bi-dua country complaints a la ‘The Red Thread’ into her speeches for several years.As far as is known, she has never used the old hit called ‘Ronald and Leonid’ from the Cold War days in 1982. In that song, the main characters are US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and the theme…
A minor drama is currently unfolding on the Danish left wing, after the Unity Party made a number of demands to the Palestine organization that was to receive an award at this weekend’s annual meeting.There was otherwise not much drama in sight when the Red-Green Alliance delegates and the party leadership met over the weekend to hold the party’s annual meeting.But on Sunday morning, a post on the Instagram profile @Stopannekteringen changed that picture.
The court in Aarhus rules in favor of the prosecution in an unusual case against a 26-year-old drug dealer. He immediately appeals.A drug dealer was convicted on Thursday in a case of negligent manslaughter in relation to two young women who died after he gave them drugs. The court in Aarhus has sentenced the 26-year-old man to two years and six months in prison.The two women died after taking a lethal amount of pills – in one woman’s case in combination with cocaine. They both lived in the 26-year-old’s apartment in Brabrand during the last days of their lives.The man…