Author: Denmark Review

The new director of the People’s Meeting hopes that the average attendee will not notice that she has taken over the position. These days she and her colleagues are busy, but what are they actually doing in October?When Folkemødet 2025 takes place, it will be with a new director at the helm, namely Signe Saabye Ottosen, who took up the position in January.And where her predecessor, Peter Christiansen, caused a stir by advocating that any debate disruptors should be invited on stage for a dialogue, the new director has a different approach.

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Price is the most important thing, we say – but still, a few people go for the cheapest bank. A skilled and reliable advisor who is available is crucial to how happy we are with the bank.When more customers experience that the interest rate can once again be negotiated down on the loan at the bank, morale and goodwill increase.This is probably an important part of the explanation why 70 percent of respondents in Mybanker’s annual banking survey are so satisfied with their own bank that they would recommend it to others.

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Every month, almost 200 Danes are approached in their homes by fake bank messengers or bank employees who try to steal bank information, credit cards and codes, according to a new report.It was a pure coincidence that Nordea discovered the fake employee.An elderly male customer had become impatient and called the head office to find out when the bank employee would be at the address.

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Ammunition deminers and chemical emergency responders worked together with police in connection with a suspicious incident in Ishøj.Both the police, the ammunition clearance service and the Danish Emergency Management Agency’s chemical emergency response team are present in Ishøj on Sunday evening after the discovery of cannon fire.It shows pictures from the place.At first, the Copenhagen West Police only stated that they had responded to a suspicious situation together with collaborators.But shortly before 11 pm on Sunday evening, the police announced on the social platform X that gunshot wounds had been found.”Partners have been called in to handle the gun and…

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Danes are having historically few children, while immigration is higher than in many years. New projections show that citizens of Danish origin will be in the minority in seven decades if the trend continues.Imagine this: In 71 years, Denmark’s population will reach a historic point.The number of immigrants and their descendants will at that time – in the year 2096 – be greater than the number of citizens of Danish origin.

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A majority at the annual meeting of the Danish Unity Party supports a proposal from the executive board that has met with criticism.The Unity Party has decided on Sunday to change its defense and security policy.This is clear after a debate lasting almost three and a half hours, followed by a vote at the party’s annual meeting in Hafnia-Hallen in Valby.A majority of the party’s executive committee had proposed changing the policy so that the party would, among other things, have a strong territorial defense that can defend the realm and Denmark’s allies.The proposal was adopted with 250 votes in…

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Professor Jens Lundgren believes that the new corona variant does not pose a greater danger than previous variants.There is no reason to worry about the new corona variant, which was first reported in Sweden on Saturday.This is what professor of infectious disease medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Lundgren, tells Ritzau.”We certainly shouldn’t be worried about the new variant. It has happened quite a few times in the last five years that a new variant appears that has mutated.”The new variant NB.1.8.1, nicknamed nimbus, has already spread to parts of Asia and has recently also been registered in the…

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On Sunday, the police stopped a man who stole a Hjem-Is van in Brønshøj when the driver looked away.A man briefly stole a Hjem-Is van in Brønshøj in Copenhagen on Sunday at noon.This is what Chief of Police Henrik Stormer from the Copenhagen Police tells B.T.”While the Home Ice Cream Man turned his back, someone jumped in and sped away in the car,” the duty officer tells the newspaper.A car chase then ensued, after which the police stopped the car. At first, the thief tried to run, but he was stopped and arrested.The police inform Ritzau that the arrested man…

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DSB can again run trains past Middelfart Station, but only on one track. Therefore, there will continue to be cancellations.DSB is gradually resuming train operations between Odense and Fredericia.This happens after the green light has been given for DSB to operate in one lane.Train traffic was completely stopped earlier this afternoon due to a demolished overhead line at Ejby between Odense and Middelfart.Even if train traffic resumes on one track, according to DSB’s press service, it will probably be several hours before traffic is normalized.”We only have one track, and we have to drive at low speed past Middelfart. So…

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