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…
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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…
Copenhagen West Police are working to clarify the circumstances of the fatal right-turn accident.A female cyclist was killed in an accident with a right-turning truck in Hvidovre Municipality on Thursday morning, the police said. The truck hit the cyclist at an intersection between the roads Stamholmen and Avedøreholmen. She was 18 years old.The police immediately announced on Thursday morning that the cyclist’s condition was serious, and later in the day it was announced that she had died. Pictures from the scene show that both rescue workers from the Capital Emergency Services, an ambulance and an emergency medical vehicle from the…
A 29-year-old man from Randers produced child abuse material and sold it to customers all over the world.The Western High Court on Thursday significantly increased the sentence for a man who used artificial intelligence to produce sexual abuse material with children. When the Randers Court heard the case in January, the sentence was one year and three months in prison. But only the three months had to be served. The rest was made conditional.On Thursday, the High Court reached a significantly different result. The sentence was changed to an unconditional prison sentence of one year and six months, the prosecution…
Seven Danish companies have reached the top 50 in Europe on the list of the most sustainable companies.Is the jewelry company Pandora a green frontrunner? Is the cable company NKT?Yes, according to the Canadian research firm Corporate Knights. The two companies are among the reasons why Denmark is firmly on the list of Europe’s 50 most sustainable companies: Seven Danish names are on the list, which has just been published for the first time. Only one other country can match that, namely the United Kingdom.
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.