Tag: Frank Jensen
Copenhagen’s former mayor Ritt Bjerregaard passes away at the age of 81
Stay in BrusselsShe also faced trials and tribulations during her tenure, notably when she was dubbed the ‘champagne socialist’ following revelations that she had been staying at the expensive Hotel Ritz in Paris on the taxpayers’ dime. However, she maintained her prominent position in her party and became EU Commissioner for the Environment in 1995. […]
Unforgettable weekend as Denmark hosts the Grand Depart
Denmark’s journey towards hosting the Grand Depart of the Tour de France began seven years ago in November 2015, when the news first came about the bid. Within eight months, an official bid was proposed by the government and then mayor Frank Jensen. So maybe Lukas Graham was supposed to play their classic song ‘7 […]
Seven years on the way: the Tour de France stars are finally here
Denmark’s journey towards hosting the Grand Depart of the Tour de France began seven years ago in November 2015, when the news first came about the bid. Within eight months, an official bid was proposed by the government and then mayor Frank Jensen. “Soon I will be 60” … to be fair Greg LeMond turned […]
The biggest show on earth
Copenhagen is no stranger to streets that are crowded with tourists and locals – especially in the summer. And it will not be any different on July 1, when eager Danes with a passion for cycling stand along the city streets to watch the first stage of the Tour de France: the time trial prologue. […]
Local elections 2021: Social Democrat among the pigeons – at City Hall, since the registrations began
What are the chances of seeing the office chain proudly adorn the chest of a brand new blue center-right mayor? None – if the experience of the last 83 years is something to go by. As Copenhagen’s most beloved mayor, HP Sørensen, jokingly remarked: “When it’s gone down the drain, you can be absolutely sure […]
Local elections 2021: Every vote counts!
This year, there are 273 candidates from 27 parties, who this year are fighting for representation in the City of Copenhagen – against 251 candidates and 26 parties in 2017. They are fighting for 55 seats in the municipal council, which will be distributed proportionally. Collection of the votes It is an understandable consideration that […]
Prominent politician Naser Khader kicked out after #MeToo revelations
“Trial of the media” In a Facebook post, Khader said he was “shocked” by the decision, which he claims is based on a study that does not provide a concrete conclusion. “No one has reported me to the police and I am convinced that none of the cases would hold in court-time will show,” Khader […]
The past caught up with the mayor
Since then, Frank Jensen was overtaken by his past, where in a number of cases he had abused women. It cost him his political career. Now Frank Jensen, who turns 60 on Friday 28 May, will draw on his political experience as a consultant. – I will not be a politician again. I have taken […]
Copenhagen Municipality drops large sexism survey
The parties in the Citizens’ Representation in Copenhagen agreed back in October that sexism and sexual harassment in the City of Copenhagen should be investigated. Work on the study was underway. But the study was not included in the latest budget agreement. And now it is postponed indefinitely. – They promised gold and green forests […]
Business Round Up: Minister condemns “greedy” Danske Bank for lowering the limit for negative interest-free accounts
Since June last year, Danske Bank has charged a cash negative interest rate to account holders with moderate savings, which has gradually lowered the threshold in the following months to only DKK 250,000. And now there has been news that account holders with savings of more than 100,000 kroner are obliged to pay a negative […]
Former mayor Frank Jensen starts consulting firm
Copenhagen’s former Social Democrat mayor Frank Jensen now lifts a bit of the veil on what the future holds. He has started a consulting company, he writes in a post on the social media LinkedIn. – In recent months, I have had enough contracts and agreements to establish my own consulting company, from which I […]
Terrorist lawyer: Closed doors have been shot over the target
– I think that this case needs the public to know what it is about, instead of overdramatizing, the protest sounds from Ole Schmidt, after prosecutor John Catre Nielsen has demanded closed doors. A claim which Catre justified in the serious nature and extent of the case as well as international relations with Germany and […]
Deciphering ‘unconventional’ Denmark’s unconventional relationship to feminism
Denmark serves as a role model for the rest of the world with its social democratic welfare, narrow gender pay, generous parental leave and remarkable female representation in the government and the political sphere. It even has a feminist political party! The country has made great strides in terms of women’s rights since 1915 – […]
Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor apologizes for violations at City Hall
Lars Weiss (S), Lord Mayor of the City of Copenhagen, apologizes to the women who have experienced being violated by former Mayor Frank Jensen (S). Weiss apologizes on behalf of the finance committee of the municipality. The committee decided on Friday that an apology is in order. It writes Politiken. – The Finance Committee agrees […]
Hard to say goodbye: Two former culture ministers and two former Radical leaders to call it a day
Former Left-wing minister Bertel Haarder, 77, has confirmed that this will be his last term in parliament, reports The Althing. Haarder first became a Member of Parliament in 1975, and he has been responsible for eight different ministries – most recently as Minister of Culture until 2016. In all, he has been a Member of […]
Lawyer investigation by Frank Jensen finds 12 infringement cases
– I have participated in both legal studies to contribute to a proper processing of the inquiries that have emerged, while they are many years back in time, says Frank Jensen in a written comment to Ritzau. The report was commissioned by Copenhagen’s Citizens’ Representation. The investigation shows that the lawyers have received information about […]
Former Minister of Justice Ole Espersen has died – 85 years old
Former Minister of Justice Ole Espersen (S) is dead – 85 years old. It appears from words of remembrance in Bornholms Tidende written by the former mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen (S). Espersen has slept quietly on Friday in Rønne, and the funeral will take place in silence, his family writes in an obituary in […]
DMI encourages to enjoy a cold and clear start to the weekend
– The day starts with temperatures from zero to five degrees heat, so it gets quite cold around the fingers, says Frank Nielsen early Friday morning. He adds that there have been showers with sleet and hail in several places during the night until Friday, and more of them are expected during the morning hours. […]
Local Round-Up: Copenhagen Airport will reduce capacity by 40 percent until 2022
From 25 November, Copenhagen Airport will reduce its capacity by 40 percent. Due to the global pandemic, the number of people traveling through airports has dropped by as much as 90 percent. Last year, Copenhagen Airport had around 83,000 passengers a day during the winter months, but today it has only 5,600 passengers a day. […]
Minister points to regional chairman as Frank Jensen’s replacement
Minister of Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) hopes that party colleague Sophie Hæstorp Andersen will run as mayoral candidate in Copenhagen after Frank Jensen’s exit. She writes this on Twitter. Sophie Hæstorp Andersen is currently chairman of the regional council in the Capital Region, but has not even registered as a candidate for mayor in Copenhagen. […]
Sports Round-Up: Denmark’s road to Qatar looks smoother thanks to top sowing
FIFA has confirmed that the draw for the European qualifying rounds of football’s biggest tournament will be revealed on December 7, when 55 nations are pulled out of the hat. This time, the World Cup qualifiers will take a more compressed schedule, with all games played between March and November 2021. Very likely to be […]
Sports Round-Up: Denmark’s road to Qatar looks smoother thanks to top sowing
FIFA has confirmed that the draw for the European qualifying rounds of football’s biggest tournament will be revealed on December 7, when 55 nations are pulled out of the hat. This time, the World Cup qualifiers will take a more compressed schedule, with all games played between March and November 2021. Very likely to be […]
After Jensen’s exit: Several refuse to run for office
Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil will not comment on whether she is interested in running. – It is a process that runs internally in the Social Democrats, she says. At the same time, Christine Antorini, director of Life at Novo Nordisk and former Minister for Children and Education, denies to Ritzau that she […]
Frank Jensen’s reserve follows the mayoral chain until 2022
Copenhagen’s acting mayor, Lars Weiss (S), will go after getting the mayoral chain for the rest of the election period. He says this to Politiken. The Social Democrats in Copenhagen (SIK) will on Tuesday vote on who they see succeeding Frank Jensen. Here, Lars Weiss’ name will be on the ballot paper. Weiss says he […]
S chooses its bid for Frank Jensen’s replacement in a week
On Tuesday next week – October 27 – the Social Democrats will vote on who the party wants to wear the mayoral chain in Copenhagen for the rest of the current election period. An extraordinary delegate meeting has been convened here in the Social Democrats in Copenhagen – SIK – where the candidate is elected. […]
Frank Jensen’s reserve is chewing on permanent service
Acting Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Lars Weiss (S) has not yet decided whether he will go on to become a permanent replacement for Frank Jensen (S). He says this to TV2, after a meeting of the Social Democratic group in Copenhagen’s Citizens’ Representation on Monday evening. – I have some considerations I need to make […]
Ritt Bjerregaard: Good that Frank Jensen himself withdrew
This was the right thing to do when Frank Jensen (S) earlier Monday was forced to resign as mayor of the City of Copenhagen and as deputy chairman of the Social Democrats. This is the assessment of the party colleague and his predecessor as Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Ritt Bjerregaard. – It did not occur […]
Commentator: Kofod can sleep peacefully for the time being despite the Jensen exit
Repeated sexual abuse of women through 30 years led on Monday to Frank Jensen (S) having to resign as mayor of the City of Copenhagen and as deputy chairman of the Social Democrats. With the departure of the prominent politician, whom Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) has called “the right decision”, the question now is […]
Mette F .: Right by Frank Jensen to retire
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) writes on Facebook that it is the right decision that Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen (S) has resigned. – Frank Jensen has just announced that he is resigning immediately from both the post of mayor of Copenhagen and as deputy chairman of the Social Democrats. That is the right […]
The minister calls the departure of the mayor harsh but necessary
– It is a tough but also necessary decision. This is the reaction from Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Chairman Mogens Jensen (S), after Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor for 11 years, Frank Jensen, has decided to resign from his post. Mogens Jensen has shared the position of deputy chairman of the Social Democrats with Frank […]
Lars Weiss will be acting mayor of Copenhagen
Lars Weiss (S) from the Citizens’ Representation in Copenhagen will become acting mayor after Frank Jensen has resigned. This is what Frank Jensen says at a press conference on Monday. Here he has announced his resignation as Lord Mayor of the City of Copenhagen and as Deputy Chairman of the Social Democrats after a number […]
Frank Jensen resigns as mayor and S deputy chairman
Frank Jensen (S) resigns as Lord Mayor of Copenhagen and Deputy Chairman of the Social Democrats, after accusations of violations of women have been rolled up in the media in recent days. This is stated by Frank Jensen at a press conference on Monday. His farewell is announced, just 13 hours after he received support […]
Cases of Frank Jensen’s violations are being investigated
Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor Frank Jensen, who is also deputy chairman of the Social Democrats, is fighting for his political life after several cases of violations of women have come to light. On Sunday evening, he received support from the Social Democrats in Copenhagen to continue in the post and as the leading candidate in the […]
Mette F. takes charges against Frank Jensen very seriously
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) takes very seriously the accusations of violations that have been raised against the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen (S). She says at the same time that no conclusions have yet been drawn in the case of him. – I take the accusations that have been raised very seriously. It […]
District chairman: Form of meeting may have affected support for Frank Jensen
22 out of 32 participants backed Frank Jensen (S) at a crisis meeting on Sunday, where the case of the mayor’s violations of women was on the table. This is what Carlo Søndergaard, chairman of the Social Democrats in Indre By and Christianshavn, who was one of the participants at the meeting, says. He is […]
Frank Jensen: I cheered on Sofie Linde but am an offender myself
Nine years after Mayor Frank Jensen (S) licked a woman and held another while dancing in the party hall at Copenhagen City Hall, he steps forward and admits that he is an abuser. It happens even in the same place where the violations happened. – The cases I have are often related to dancing to […]
Parties outside S will look for more cases against Frank Jensen
All parties in Copenhagen’s Citizens’ Representation, except the Social Democrats, who have not been asked, will have an independent investigation of the accusations that have been raised against Mayor Frank Jensen (S) about cross-border behavior. It writes the parties in a joint email to Ritzau. Here they write that “serious accusations have been made” about […]
All parties except S will investigate Frank Jensen
All parties in Copenhagen’s Citizens’ Representation except S will have an independent investigation of accusations against Frank Jensen, the parties write in an email to Ritzau.
Danish top politicians continue to gain confidence despite sexual accusations
Frank Jensen, deputy party chairman of the Danish Social Democrats and mayor of Copenhagen, is allowed to remain in office, despite accusations of sexual abuse. The message comes after a crisis meeting within the party on Sunday night. According to information to Jyllandsposten, the accusations against Jensen date back to the end of the 1990s, […]
A large majority leaves Frank Jensen in the mayoral post
Frank Jensen has received support from an overwhelming majority of Social Democratic party colleagues in Copenhagen to continue as mayor. He states this after a four-hour crisis meeting. – There has been a show of hands at the meeting, and an overwhelming majority showed me support, he says after the meeting. He himself had convened […]
OVERVIEW: Cases against Frank Jensen go back to the 90s
On Sunday evening, Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor, Frank Jensen (S), will explain himself after accusations of abusive behavior. It was two cases of cross-border behavior, as Jyllands-Posten has described, that triggered the meeting. On Sunday afternoon, the newspaper was able to report that there are eight more cases involving the mayor. Get an overview of the […]
Frank Jensen convenes an emergency meeting in S after accusations
Copenhagen’s Social Democratic mayor, Frank Jensen, will explain himself on Sunday after accusations of abusive behavior against two women. It takes place at an emergency meeting at 6.30 pm at the City Hall in Copenhagen. Also read: Frank Jensen apologizes unreservedly for violations Here he must explain himself to his party colleagues in the Citizens’ […]
The stool falters under a silent mayor
The Social Democrats’ Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen, is now again accused of abusing women through unwanted touches. The party is therefore expanding a scheme with a lawyer to also include the party’s deputy chairman to review the new cases that Jyllands-Posten could describe on Saturday.
Enterprising art lover behind solid media success
It actually started with the Oluf Høst Museum in Gudhjem. It was journalist Rasmus Nielsen who in 1996 took the initiative to establish the museum for the famous Danish painter here. Precisely the several-year-long struggle to – together with Louisiana founder Knud W. Jensen – get the museum up and running and the experiences from […]
FACTS: This is how the mayor will regulate the nightlife
Mayor Frank Jensen (S), Copenhagen Municipality, will put a damper on nightlife. This must be done with a number of proposals that require changes in the law at Christiansborg. The proposals, which you can see below, have now been passed on to Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S). * Frank Jensen proposes a ban on […]
Local rounding: Hotel d’Angleterre pulls the plug on the Christmas light façade
Hotel d’Angleterre confirmed yesterday that it is canceling its Christmas light façade due to the coronavirus pandemic, reported TV2. The hotel’s festive atmosphere on Kongens Nytorv attracts many people – both locals and tourists. However, the hotel’s management maintains that things are not going well in the wake of a global pandemic. Some decorations … […]
Copenhagen gets the 2021 budget at a record pace
It took local politicians at City Hall only five days to reach agreement on the budget for Copenhagen in 2021. Included in the deal were millions of dollars in funds earmarked for everything from day care and schools to the elderly and socially vulnerable. “I am happy and proud that such a broad spectrum of […]