Tag: Aalborg
Sports news in Digest: Violence-stricken FCK regains top spot in sweet revenge against Brøndby
Two weeks ago, Brøndby came to the Park without a single fan to support their team. Brøndby were in bad shape and the supporters were angry at the ownership. Everyone agreed that FCK would win the ‘New Firm’ derby easily. As you know, Brøndby put up a tight defensive line, won 1-0 and rode on…
A quarter of Danish women in their 20s may become childless in light of climate concerns
Every fourth Danish woman aged 20-30 years says that they are considering not having children because of concerns about climate change, according to a study by the think tank Kraka with support from the consulting firm Deloitte. The survey asked 1,500 women and girls between the ages of 12 and 30 and found that 27…
Eight arrests after discovery of fraud with energy companies worth billions of kroner
Eight employees of a Danish energy company are to be questioned about the constitution today after being arrested yesterday and charged with price manipulation on a large scale. This is reported by DR. An investigation by the police’s unit dedicated to special crime (NSK) concluded that the company made billions of kroner in illegal profits.…
‘Gassum’ one of nine huge underground locations where Denmark wants to store CO2
According to GEUS, the storage facilities can welcome a total of 2 billion tonnes of CO2, and there is even talk of storing CO2 for other countries. “It could be a good source of income for Danish companies and the Danish state to store other countries’ CO2 underground,” assesses the head of climate policy in…
Harley credible: Outrage after revelations that Danish taxpayers have spent 250,000 to transport armed soldiers’ personal motorcycles
When the people of Denmark overwhelmingly voted for the abolition of the EU’s defense reservation in June last year, the government effectively gave carte blanche to spend whatever it wants on fighter planes, tanks, guns, ammunition and other light to medium weapons of destruction. , they didn’t expect that! Last year, during the last government’s…
Are you paying top dollar? At the new Swedish discount chain, just one is often enough
Don’t be confused by the name. ‘Dollar store‘ is actually a Swedish discount chain with 118 stores since the opening of its first in 1999. And now it is according to Financeafter a satisfactory entry into the Danish market, they have now set their sights on opening many more stores. As the name suggests, its…
Danish company abolishes children’s sick day limit
Your three-year-old woke up with an eye infection, but you managed to clear most of the dirt. Your five-year-old has a slight temperature, so there’s a chance he’ll come down with something, but he’ll definitely make it through the day—especially if you give him a pill. Working parents wake up to these kinds of dilemmas…
It’s a snowstorm, Hjørring!
Tomorrow may be a good day to work at home – especially if you live in northern Jutland, as high winds and heavy snowfall will most likely cause a blizzard in the region. In Aalborg, the snowfall is expected e.g. to start around 17.00 on Monday evening, but the wind strength will be modest until…
Museums Round-Up: Countdown begins, engines fired up, for opening of new Cold War museum
Ten, nine, eight, seven … it’s the lift-off sequence we all once associated with launching lunar modules, but today, unfortunately, it’s more likely some kind of missile – to cause needless human destruction or kill James Bond. It is fittingly reproduced here because we now have only ten days until the opening of Cold War…
First school in Denmark to try a four-day week
Long weekends in sightThe school is closed on six selected Mondays, giving students and teachers a long weekend. The downside will be a summer holiday that is six days shorter. “We have been inspired by the places that have four-day work weeks,” This is what the head of school at Aalborg Katedralskole Christian Nielsen Warming…
CPH Airport has high hopes for 2023, when passengers will return
On a tear in TorontoSpeaking of destinations, Icelandic low-cost airline Play has announced that it opens new routes to Canada from Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Billund. The routes will include a stopover in Reykjavik en route to John C Munro Hamilton International Airport in Toronto. The routes are scheduled to open on 22 June and…
CPH Airport has high hopes for 2023, when passengers will return
On a tear in TorontoSpeaking of destinations, Icelandic low-cost airline Play has announced that it opens new routes to Canada from Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Billund. The routes will include a stopover in Reykjavik en route to John C Munro Hamilton International Airport in Toronto. The routes are scheduled to open on 22 June and…
Science collection: Danish brain researchers play a key role in redrawing the map in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer’s and MS
American and Danish scientists did not expect to make a surprising new discovery when they chose to remove the brain from a cadaver by cutting off the entire head. Normally, researchers just remove the brain, but by cutting off the entire head, it revealed a layer of cells not previously discovered: a fourth meninge that…
Danish News Round: New chairman of the Danish Parliament’s Immigration Committee is strongly biased towards applicants from Islamic countries
New Citizen Member of Parliament Mikkel Bjørn has given a clear indication of the likely direction for his chairmanship of the Immigration Committee, the Norwegian Parliament’s Immigration Committee, over the next four years: an increased bias towards applicants from Islamic countries. As of February 2022, Islamic countries made up four of the seven countries with…
Can wage increases across industry close the real wage gap?
Negotiations are underway between employers and trade unions, which could have serious consequences for the purchasing power of the 230,000 people in Denmark who are employed in heavy industry, such as production jobs. A further 370,000 private sector workers – in retail, construction, transport, financial services etc – will be affected by the results, which…
Danish News Round-Up: The rising costs of parents who are forced to stay at home to care for their children
Absenteeism costs society dearly and becomes a “desperate situation”, warns professor Mikael Thastum from Aarhus University, an expert on the subject, to DR. However, it is not a truancy problem, rather a failure to cater for children with special needs and disabilities together with a growing tendency to exclude problem children. Over 15,000 parents are…
Danish news: Stop! There were no bank robberies in 2022
In mid-December, CPH told POST how there were only two banks left in Denmark with tellers. They are both branches of Danske Bank and are located in Copenhagen and Aarhus, and TV2 was able to demonstrate that both tend to have very long queues. But the frustration of pensioners who never got a NemID account…
Danish News Round-Up: Four films in the running for the Oscars
Two Danish documentaries among the shortlist‘A House Made of Splinters’, a documentary film shot in a Ukrainian orphanage and directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont is nominated in the Documentary Feature Film category, while ‘The Territory’, a Danish-Brazilian-American film shot in the Amazon about indigenous people and the environment , is also among the nominees in…
Denmark down to the last two banks!
When Queen Elizabeth II died, many Britons visited royal buildings, saying they wanted to pay their respects and be “part of history”. Well, now the Danish public has a chance to say the same by taking part in the most archaic of transactions: withdrawing money from a bank teller for the very last time. According…
Business Round-Up: Rough year for car sales … but not the electric kind
Going up and upThe number of electric cars in Denmark has now reached 106,000 – an increase of 75.6 percent from a year ago. So far this year, 38.5 percent of newly registered cars have been electric or plug-in hybrid cars. See all the car sales figures from 2022 here. Organic exports increased significantlyDenmark’s export…
Church, vocal minorities and academics oppose plans to abolish public holidays, but businesses are mostly in favour
The new government has decided to cut one of the three public holidays that Danes enjoy every spring – the timing of all three always depends on how early or late Easter can be. READ MORE: Big changes on the way: New government unveils a surprising platform From 2024, Denmark can expect to say goodbye…
Danish homeowners face high electricity prices as temperatures plummet along with wind speeds
Aalborg Portland wants emission reductionsIn addition, Aalborg Portland has unveiled a pilot project involving plans to capture CO2 via a new facility. The country’s largest CO2 emitter is working hard to reduce its CO2 emissions, and it has formulated a goal to reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2030. According to the managing director of…
Culture Round-Up: Bjarke Ingel’s designer car collector’s house inspired by ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Star architect Bjarke Ingels has designed a home to showcase Danish entrepreneur Mads Peter Veiby’s vintage car collection – and the inspiration is a classic American film about high school students who truant! Located among some rare Danish hills on the outskirts of Aalborg, it may well be the most expensive house ever built in…
Holy crap: The museum thinks Bishop might have left a final offering and that it’s the real shit!
The year is 2422. And you, Dear Reader, have provided the star attraction. No, it’s not a serious TikTok video you made about the pandemic, although the description would be the same. At the Aalborg Historical Museum, they queue around the block to see one of your creations. ‘A piece of shit’, to be exact.…
International Round-Up: Greenland permanently moves its clocks forward in 2023
Greenland will move closer to Europe next year. No, this is not a question of plate tectonics, but time zones! Its national parliament has decided that 2023 will be the year it moves its clocks one hour closer to the motherland. Or rather, it does not return them. As usual, it switches to summer time…
Science Round-Up: Study finds bias against female politicians in Denmark
The latest election represented a historic moment for women’s representation in Danish politics, where the proportion of 44 percent of elected women in the Folketing exceeded 40 percent for the first time. However, this is most likely the result of women’s sheer willpower in a society that continues to stack the deck against them, a…
Climate summary: Could Denmark soon have a new Swedish nuclear power plant as a neighbour?
Plans to build a new nuclear power plant near the decommissioned Barsebäck nuclear power plant are taking shape in Skåne in southern Sweden – an area just over 20 km across the Øresund from Copenhagen. For decades, the Danish government tirelessly campaigned for its closure due to its proximity to Denmark. But now it appears…
Border trade is a path for the unemployed on benefits
Difficult to navigate Lorensen agreed that it was his responsibility to be aware of the rules, but he did not think that a two-hour shopping trip to a border shop would be considered a trip abroad. He said he only goes over the border to shop because times are hard and he can get more…
Talk about sustainable innovation with the DLG chair
Management thinkers often use the metaphor of ‘snow melting at the edge of an organization’ to highlight the phenomena whereby top management in large organizations cannot see threats or change happening quickly enough. It is often said that people who work close to customers in the field – such as engineers, sales and project managers…
Danish venues close for the winter in response to the energy crisis
Denmark is preparing for a winter of energy savings due to rising electricity prices. The festive lights will be less visible (Tønder, which calls itself Denmark’s most welcoming Christmas town, will only have the lights on for six hours a day), many ice rinks will not be in use (e.g. Horsens will not open theirs…