the copenhagen post - july 13-19

SPORT

� e fi rst Dane to take home Wimbledon hardware hopes to be making a return trip to London for the Olympics 6

NEWS

As the nationwide electronic travel card moves closer to full roll out, the number of complaints is rising

3

All split up over uranium

5

Greenland can’t open its treasure trove of minerals without violating is ban on uranium mining. What’s an emerging mining industry to do?

An autumn garden

10

Summer’s barely arrived, but good gardeners known that now is the time to start turning their thoughts to autumn

NEWS

LIFESTYLE

Danish. Peter Christian Jensen, hotel manager, said that it is time to face facts.

“Danes do not want or need low-paying jobs anymore,” he told Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

� e latest numbers reveal that for-eigners � ll fully 80 percent of all jobs in the hotel, restaurant and catering indus-tries and 30 percent in the cleaning busi-ness. Half of the jobs at plant nurseries in Denmark are � lled by workers coming from outside the country.

After dipping to a historic low of less than 2 percent in 2008, unemployment gradually increased before stabilising at its current level of 6.2 percent.

Ole Pass, of the association of social welfare managers, said tougher regula-tions might be a way to get some of those unemployed Danes to take low-wage vacancies.

“It is a bit of a paradox that we are importing workers when we have high unemployment,” Pass told Jyllands-

Posten. “Danes do not feel � nancially pressured because they get so much help from the government. Perhaps we need tougher sanctions.”

Nina Smith, of Aarhus University, warned that reluctance to do unskilled labour can undermine the welfare state.

� e economy minister, Margrethe Vestager (Radikale), said Danes who are out of work must be willing to take unskilled jobs while they are looking for something better to come along.

“All job seekers must make them-selves available,” she said. “� ere is noth-ing wrong with doing this kind of work.”

Some fear that foreigners � lling unskilled jobs are vulnerable to abuse, something recent stories about the sys-tematic exploitation of Romanians working for cleaning companies only served to underscore.

An investigation by trade union mag-azine Fagbladet 3F revealed that a sub-contractor to Forenede Service, the na-

tion’s second-largest cleaning company, was systematically exploiting Romanian cleaners it had brought to Denmark. � e Romanians worked long hours with no pay and many lived in squalid conditions in a basement � at owned by the subcon-tractor. Many of the workers reported being paid less than they were promised and some said they were not paid at all. Workers reported being threatened with physical violence, and some of them had their ID papers stolen.

Foreign workers often become targets of abuse and suspicion in the workplace. Lasse Espersen, a masonry contractor, said many of his bricklay-ers were beginning to refuse to work on sites where there are Albanians and Poles working in the other construction trades.

“� e quality of their work is not up to Danish standards and the men say that too many tools and supplies disap-pear when foreigners are on the sites,” said Espersen.

13 - 19 July 2012 | Vol 15 Issue 28

Get ready for the summer outdoor cinema season

G2 ON BACK

Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk

Free access to 70 museumsand attractions in the

entire metropolitan area

See more at copenhagencard.com

9 771398 100009

Price: 25 DKK

If the want ad calls for an unskilled worker, it is a safe bet that the position will not wind up being � lled by a Dane

E VEN AS UNEMPLOYMENT has soared in recent years, a grow-ing number of unskilled jobs are being � lled by people from places

like Romania, Poland and � ailand.Employers say that the jobs go to the

foreigners because Danes simply do not want them and that the nation’s social bene� ts are so high that it does not pay for Danish workers to take low-paying, unskilled positions.

In one of the most extreme cases, Ruth’s Hotel in the resort town of Ska-gen has employed 16 eastern Europeans as housekeepers or dishwashers over the past two weeks. Of the nearly 30 peo-ple who applied for the jobs, none were

RAY WEAVER

Northern Europe’s leading Executive MBA is moving with the times. Join a life-changing and career-enhancing journey.

Information Meeting 7th June 2012 Personal Meeting at your convenience

Sign up via www.cbs.dk/embainfo or call (+45) 38 15 60 21.

A new world

A new executive mba




A new world

A new executive mba




A new world

A new executive mba

Move with the timesJoin a life-changing and career-enhancing journey

Next class starting September 2012

For more information call +45 3815 6021 or visit www.cbs.dk/emba

CBSExEcutivE MBA




CBSExEcutivE MBA




CBSExEcutivE MBAMove with the timesJoin a life-changing and career-enhancing journey


For more information call +45 3815 6021or visit www.cbs.dk/emba

Free access to 70 museumsand attractions in the entire metropolitan area


SUMMERIN DENMARK

BoBo ØsterbroAmsterdam in Copenhagen

Simply sustainable SamsøDiscover central Jutland

13-19 July 2012

Denmark’s only English-language newspaper

Discover the best of DenmarkRead our special 10-page section

Born to be ... loadedDoes letting kids drink teach them to be adults or set them on a path to destruction? 4

SCA

NP

IX/M

OR

TE

N ST

RIC

KE

R

Danes saying ‘nej tak’ to unskilled jobs

2 13 - 19 July 2012The Copenhagen posT CphposT.dkWeek in revieW

Police in copenhagen have ruled out any failure on the part of copenhagen Zoo in the death of the 20-year-old man who was found lifeless in the park’s tiger facility by employees on Wednesday. The man ap-parently jumped over the zoo’s exterior fence during the night and then made his way into an

outdoor space that housed three Amur tigers, each weighing up to 300 kilograms Police investi-gating the incident said the zoo’s after-hours security had been adequate and that none of the canine patrols had seen anything unusual. Zoo director Steffen Stræder said the tigers will not be put down.

The UniverSiTy of co-penhagen has fired Timo Kivimä-ki after he was sentenced to five months in prison for espionage. The finnish-born professor was found guilty of handing over documents to russian diplomats during meetings with them be-tween 2002 and 2010. he was also found guilty of attempting to

hand over a list of student names along with the cv of the head of the centre for Military Studies. Dean Troels Østergaard Sørensen said that allowing Kivimäki to continue to work was ‘inconsist-ent’ with him being sentenced to prison. Kivimäki was suspended from his post at the University of copenhagen in January 2011.

Summer postponed

TEN YEARS AGO. Train troubles: DSB spends 5 billion kroner on new IC-4 trains that are too long for Central Station’s loading platforms.

FIVE YEARS AGO. Wedding bells ring throughout the country, as nearly a fifth of all weddings planned in Denmark this year are to be held on the magic date of 07-07-07.

ONE YEAR AGO. Immigration Ministry criticised for using information illegally acquired by police to affect decisions to grant asylum.

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

THE WEEK’S MOST READ STORIES AT CPHPOST.DK

Born to be wild and … loaded

Bruce transcends time and place in historic Roskilde performance

Danes say no thanks to low wage jobs

Denmark officially mine free today

Passengers unconvinced about new electronic travel ticket

Sca

np

ix/LiSe

Lot

te Sa

br

oe

Those on holiday hoping to enjoy a bit of fun should maybe start looking someplace other than Denmark. Meteorological office DMi is calling for the dreary weather to continue for the next 30 days.

CORRECTION: christian Poll is not a spokesman for conciTo, as we reported on page 5 last week in our story about incineration.

Death by tigerGuilty spy

The inTernATionAl Whaling commission (iWc) has rejected Greenland’s request to increase its whale hunting quota, and instead eliminated it entirely. citing increased aborigi-nal demand for whale meat, Den-mark, negotiating on Greenland’s behalf had asked for its quota to be increased by 10 to 221 whales

annually during the 2013-2018 period. Studies showed, how-ever that more whale meat is being sold to tourists than is be-ing consumed by Greenlanders. The commission also noted that Greenland’s population grew by just under ten percent in the past 24 years, while its quota grew 89 percent over the period.

Lost quota

co

Lou

rb

ox

Sca

np

ix/e

rik

re

fne

r

Sca

np

ix/b

ria

n b

er

gm

an

n

President and Publisher ejvind Sandal

Chief executiveJesper nymark

editor-in-ChiefKevin McGwin

Managing editorBen hamilton

news editorJustin cremer

JournalistsPeter Stanners, ray Weaver & christian Wenande

editorial offices:Slagtehusgade 4 – 6DK 1715 copenhagen v Telephone: 3336 3300fax: 3393 1313 www.cphpost.dk

news [email protected] 4243

The cPh Post welcomes outside articles and letters to the editor. letters and comments can be left on our website or at: [email protected]

Sales, Advertising and [email protected]

[email protected]

Annual home delivery rates:1 year: 1,200kr6 months: 750kr1 year (online): 365krDiscounted bulk rates available.

Distribution [email protected]

Printed by Dagbladet, ringsted.

Layout and designJustin cremerAviaja Bebe nielsen

logo by rasmus Koch

The copenhagen Post accepts no responsibility for the content of material submitted by advertisers. The copenhagen Post is published weekly by cPhPoST.DK ApS

All rights reserved. reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited by law.

founded in 1998 by San Shepard

Denmark’s only English-language newspaperSince 1998, The copenhagen Post has been Denmark’s leading source for news in english. As the voice of the international community, we provide coverage for the thousands of foreigners making their home in Denmark. Additionally, our english language medium helps to bring Denmark’s top stories to a global audience.

in addition to publishing the only regularly printed english-language newspaper in the country, we provide up-to-date news on our website and deliver news to national and international organisations. The copenha-gen Post is also a leading provider of non-news services to the private and public sectors, offering writing, trans-lation, editing, production and delivery services.

Visit us online at www.cphpost.dk

313 - 19 July 2012 The Copenhagen posT CphposT.dk News

T he new electronic travel ticket, the Rejsekort, can now be used nationally, but it comes with a new tariff system that

could mean even higher prices for some passengers, and a system that critics claim leads to undeserved fines.

niklas Marschall, the sales and mar-keting director of DSB, conceded to the Ritzau news bureau that it is not easy to say who will benefit from the new elec-tronic ticketing system.

“Some customers will consider it is a better idea to keep the tickets they already have, rather than switch to the Rejsekort – if they just look at the pric-es,” he said.

“I can understand, though, if some customers find it difficult to make the choice.”

In March, a report in metroXpress demonstrated how regular commuters (who travel to and from work at least 18 times a month) would be between 200-800 kroner worse off a month if they switched from their travel card to

D on’t let the mother mon-ster steal your heart,” sings Dan-ish evangelical minister Kristina

Djarling in her musical debut, ‘Pup-pet for the world’s elite’, which pre-miered on Youtube last month. If the mother monster references and Gaga’s flashing profile weren’t enough to tip you off, her message is right there in the title: ‘A protest against lady Gaga’.

“The song is a warning against fol-lowing the trend of living so hard that you die before your time,” Djarling writes on her Facebook page, explain-ing that she’s concerned for the youth of today and their exposure to such artists as lady Gaga and Madonna, to whom she has dedicated her own video protest, ‘Babylon is Fallen’, which was released last Sunday – the same day that Madonna performed at Parken.

Djarling is a leading member of Faderhuset, an evangelical non-de-nominational church group, which according to Djarling, seeks to “fight the moral decay of modern society”.

“lady Gaga is the worst role mod-el for young people today,” Djarling said on Youtube.

“She is a puppet for the world’s elite who wants to control every part of people’s lives and she is breaking every existing boundary. People would normally be put in a mental hospital for the kind of behaviour she exhibits in the name of ‘art’.”

the Rejsekort.The Consumer Council believes

that the idea to establish a nationwide electronic travel card is a good one, but admits that there are problems.

“It does not seem as if the Rejsekort system had been thought through be-fore it became a reality,” the Consumer Council’s senior adviser, lise Bjorg Ped-

Passengers unconvinced about new electronic travel ticket

Singer declares war on pop stars

Critics say many won’t use Rejsekort due to concerns over prices and fines

Faderhuset member releases songs attacking Madonna and Lady Gaga’s moral standards

Lydia deichmann

Linn Lemhag

Peter StannerS

The DeAth oF a 20-year-old man from an ecstasy overdose on the first day of this year’s Roskilde Festival

led police to step up their efforts against drugs at the annual eight-day event.

As a result, there was a noticeable in-crease in the number of drug cases regis-tered at the festival, up to 468 by Sunday afternoon (the final day of the festival) compared with 292 at the same time the year before.

“The weather plays a large fac-tor,” deputy assistant commissioner Per heide, of Rigspolitiet, told Jyllands-Posten newspaper. “People have been sit-ting in the sun outside their tents in the camping area taking drugs in the open so they are quite easy to catch.”

A total of almost two kilograms of cannabis was among the haul of drugs

ersen, told Politiken.on consumer rating website trust-

pilot.dk, many passengers have already criticised the Rejsekort for being too ex-pensive and hard to understand. “Stay far, far away from the Rejsekort,” wrote one commenter, while another called it a “completely incompetent system”.

Additionally, many do not trust the

at the festival, though heide would not confirm whether drug consumption at the music festival was on the rise.

“we don’t have any grounds to say there were more drugs at the festival this year but we have written up more cita-tions,” heide said.

In the camping area,The Copenha-gen Post met a 22-year-old man, who did not want to be named, that had just been caught smoking a joint.

“These two plainclothes policemen just walked into my camp, took the joint out of my hand and asked me what I was smoking. I didn’t have a chance.”

The man was given a 2,000 kroner fine for possession of cannabis, a punish-ment that he found too severe.

“how is giving me a fine going to stop me smoking hash at Roskilde? They ought to just legalise it.”

Among the other misdemeanours at the festival included a number of people that were caught either entering the festi-val illegally without a valid wristband or with fake wristbands.

one 42-year-old man was caught

three times without a wristband and ac-cumulated three 3,500 kroner fines for illegal entry to the festival. on the third occasion the man, a Moroccan national, was kept in police custody in order to determine the reason for his stay in the country.

The Copenhagen Post came across a number of cases of individuals passing on their armbands, particularly plastic armbands that gave access to the media area of the festival. Unlike previous years,

More drug busts at Roskilde Festival after deathPolice say the increase in cases of drug possession may not reflect a rise in drug use at the festival

Commuters say they’re checking in, but they can’t check out

A Madonna or a demon?

A euphoric experience, but for some the high proved costly

sca

np

ix/c

asp

er

ch

rist

offe

rse

n

sca

np

ix/B

rit

ta

pe

De

rse

n

sca

np

ix/

Ma

lte

Kr

ist

ian

sen

system, which requires customers to check in when boarding and check out when leaving. Already, passengers are claiming the system does not work.

one passenger, Morten lund, who regularly commutes between Copen-hagen and Aalborg, received a fine of 750 kroner on the Metro because the inspector claimed he had not checked in with his Rejsekort. lund was ada-mant that he had, but could not prove it.

“I think it is very irresponsible that consumer safety is not given higher priority with the Rejsekort,” he told Politiken. “with a ticket or a clip-card I can prove that I paid for my trip, but I have no chance of doing that with my Rejsekort.”

Metro spokesperson Jette Clausen rejected suggestions the system did not work.

“we have every confidence that the system works as it should,” he told the newspaper. “If you do not trust the system or our inspectors, you must buy a clip-card or a ticket so you can get a written record.”

The Rejsekort system has been be-set by a raft of technical issues that have delayed its introduction by years and nearly doubled its cost, which in March stood at a projected 1.4 billion kroner.

OnLine ThiS week

hacker prank or travel perk?

InFoRMAtIon screens at Aarhus Central Station that were supposed to display arrivals and departures suddenly showed something a little racier last week: pornography. According to henrik Johnson, the managing director of Mer-maid, the company that supplies content to the screens at Aarhus Central Station, the company had been the victim of a hacker attack. Mermaid does know that the hacker gained access through a pro-gramme from a third-party supplier. The programme was uninstalled after the in-cident. The picture of the saucy informa-tion screen soon surfaced on Facebook and quickly went viral.

ReaD MORe STORieS aT CPhPOST.Dk

A 55-YeAR-olD drug addict suc-cumbed to anthrax poisoning at Rig-shospitalets on Sunday. Police and medi-cal personel suspect the man, who was admitted to the hospital last Thursday, was exposed to the deadly bacteria after using an infected batch of brown heroin. Posters hung by the Gadejuristerne, an aid group helping hard-core drug ad-dicts, appeared throughout Copenha-gen’s Vesterbro district warning that the tainted drugs may still be on the street. Gadejuristerne spokesperson nanna w Gotfredsen told Jyllands-Posten newspa-per that she was ‘shocked’ that the police and other authorities had not warned addicts about the possibility of infected heroin on the streets of Copenhagen.

Gotfredsen said the heroin may have been infected due to unsanitary condi-tions where it is processed. “In Afghani-stan, opium is often grown and pro-cessed right next to the goats and other livestock. It is possible that it was con-taminated there, “she said. “Production is so primitive that one often finds e. coli bacteria and other filth in the heroin.”

alarm after drug addict dies from injecting anthrax-tainted heroin Denmark mine-free after last Second world war mine field cleared

AFteR BeInG an active supporter of mine clearing activites abroad for years, Denmark can finally call itself mine-free. The country’s last mine field, on Skallingen peninsula, west of esb-jerg, was cleared in late June, and last week, the transport minister, henrik Dam Kristensen, detonated the last remaining mine, putting the country into compliance with the ottawa con-vention, which is dedicated to the de-struction of mines. Starting in 2006, coastal management authority Kyst-direktoratet has been scouring the old Second world war minefield. During the six-year search minesweepers found about 8,000 complete or partial mines. The Skallingen peninsula is open once

sca

np

ix/

Ba

x l

inD

ha

rD

t

again to the estimated 180,000 guests that visit the area annually. Denmark was supposed to be declared mine-free in 2009, but the deadline was extended after a German tourist found a mine on the beach in Skallingen in an area that had been declared mine-free.

sca

np

ix/

cla

Us

fisK

er

these armbands were easy to remove and put back together with either tape, glue or, in one case, staples.

Reports of thefts at the festival were down on the year before, with 302 re-ports between June 29 and July 5, against 375 reports during the same period the year before.

Roskilde Festival announced on Monday that it expected to make a profit of between 8 and 12 million kroner.

4 13 - 19 July 2012THE COPENHAGEN POST CPHPOST.DKCOVER STORY

THE YOUNG man is 15, maybe 16. Just a few hours earlier he was fresh-faced and smiling while

shaking the hand of his school headmaster and collecting his certi� cate for graduating from primary school. Now, he’s lying prone across a wooden picnic bench, drunk and puking his guts out on the ground below him. And he’s laughing. And his friends are cheering him on.

“Well, at least he was nice enough not to vomit on the ta-ble,” said one of the adults as-signed to chaperone the boy and the 19 or so of his classmates gathered to celebrate � nishing folkeskolen.

Chaperoning, in this in-stance, consists mostly of clean-ing up the mess and making sure the kids don’t hurt themselves or each other. She and the two other parents that volunteered to help just broke up a group that were shooting roman candles at each other.

Suggestions to the kids that they may be drinking too much too fast are met with something between mild derision and out-right scorn.

“Look, I have been drinking since I was 13,” said Frank*, a strikingly handsome young teen-ager. “My mom is picking me up and she knows I am going to be wasted.”

� e scene is one that is re-peated numerous times around the country at this time of year,

as young people � nishing school celebrate with parties that in-clude binge drinking. But the time-honoured tradition has met with headwind after a recent report showed that one in 12 young Danes between the ages of 15 and 24 have an alcohol or drug problem so severe that they should be receiving treatment.

Drug and alcohol researchers at Aarhus University asked more than 4,500 young people from four municipalities about their consumption of drugs and alco-hol. � eir responses, converted into nationwide � gures, suggest that somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 young people have a ‘serious drug problem’ – one that requires treatment – while 32,000 of those in the same age group are ‘extreme’ abusers.

“� ese are incredibly high numbers,” Professor Mads U� e Pedersen, a co-author of the re-port, told Politiken newspaper. “Young people in Denmark start drinking and taking drugs very early, and a large percentage of them have serious problems.”

� at some young people have trouble managing their alcohol is evident at the gradu-ation party. Any real sense of fun or companionship seems to be beside the point. � e challenge seems to be who can drink the most in the shortest amount of time. Backpacks, that until the day before were heavy with school books, are now stu� ed with clinking bottles of beer, bottles of cheap wine, and alco-pop of every make and � avour. And although hard liquor is sup-posed to be o� limits, more than a few bottles of gin, vodka and rum are on open display.

“My parents gave me a Red Bull and vodka fountain at my con� rmation,” said 15 year-old Casper, one of the class’s football stars. “� ey think it is better that I drink and they know about it

than that I sneak o� , get drunk and get hurt somewhere.”

Problematic drug use, ac-cording to the study, starts when people use drugs at least four times a month. Using drugs eight or more times a month constitutes a habit requiring treatment.

For alcohol, the numbers were 21 drinks per week for women and 28 for men. Alcohol abuse requiring treatment was 28 drinks per week for women and 35 for men.

“� e survey clearly shows the consequences of substance abuse,” said Pedersen. “It e� ects the young people’s education, work and social lives.”

Pedersen also said that for those with a predisposition to substance abuse, the risks in-crease when the drinking and

Look man no hands! – And no self-control either

For most young people, like these gymnasium grads, alcohol goes hand in hand with education. Younger kids see them as role models

drug use start early.Political leaders from across

the spectrum rushed to decry the � gures in the report.

Speaking with Politiken newspaper, Jonas Dahl, health spokesperson for Socialistisk Folkeparti, called the numbers ‘catastrophic’, while Venstre’s Sophie Løhde described them as “deeply disturbing” and re� ected a shift in values among teens. She said both national and local programs should be put in place to address the problem.

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (Socialdemokraterne) said that publishing the study was only a � rst step.

“It does no good to point � ngers and say what is danger-ous or illegal,” Andersen told Politiken. “We need to encour-age young people to seek out

CO

LOU

RB

OX

SCA

NP

IX/ A

ND

ER

S DE

BE

L

help and advice without the fear that there will be consequences.”

Many of the parents of the children at the party attended a meeting at the start of the school year where the alcohol policy for the class was discussed. What were the limits? One drink per party? Two? No limits? Up to the student’s parents?

One foreign-born father pointed out that young people in this age group were not al-lowed to drink at all where he was from, and that alcohol for teens would be forbidden at his house. He was shouted down by parents that reminded him that he now lived in Denmark and that he was being unrealistic.

Later that same night, his son was on the sidewalk, shirt-less in the nine degree weather, passed out.

Kevin Freeman is a Texan who lives in Denmark and shares custody of his two sons with his Danish ex-wife. A musician who says he’s no teetotaller, Freeman thinks drinking among young people in Denmark is an issue that needs to be addressed.

“� e problem is not only that kids here start early, they are also at binge-levels of con-sumption from the beginning” said Freeman. “As an expat par-ent, you want your kids to � t in, but at the same time you have to look out for their well-being.”

Freeman’s boys are 13 and 10 and he has already started having talks with his oldest son about the dangers and risks involved with drinking at an early age.

Many believe that the un-healthy relationship with alcohol displayed by young people is a symptom of a growing national addiction to booze. A Megafon/Politiken/TV 2 poll revealed that 40 percent of those asked believe that all Danes drink excessively, regardless of age. However, only one out of � ve would support government intervention in the form of higher taxes on alcohol

or warning labels like those seen on cigarette packets.

Anette Søgaard Nielsen, head of Alkoholbehandlingen, an alcohol abuse research centre in Odense, told Politiken that those numbers reveal just how reluctant people are to admit the prevalence of alcohol in the country’s culture.

“We all believe our own drinking habits are under control and it’s only other people that have a problem,” said Nielsen.

Last year the World Health Organisation (WHO) published disturbing � gures showing that Denmark’s alcohol consump-tion has been among the highest in Europe for the past 30 years. � ose numbers include the nearly 600,000 Danes who may not be alcoholics, but are still “problem drinkers” according to Sundhedsstyrelsen, the national board of health.

Kit Broholm, an adviser to Sundhedsstyrelsen, believes that people too often feel pressured to drink even when they do not want to.

“Alcohol is expected to be part of every social occasion, and people are made to feel like they are killing the party if they say no,” she told Politiken. “It should be more accepted for someone to simply say that they do not want to drink.”

Meanwhile, back at the graduation party, Elisabeth, a red-eyed, thin blonde girl who said she will be 16 in July, took a sip from her alcopop, and ad-mitted that she had also ‘smoked a little hash’ as part of the celebrations.

“� is is the last time we will all be together, so we deserve to party. Besides, a lot of us are go-ing on to gymnasium where they party like this every weekend.”

*� e names of all the young people mentioned in this story have been changed.

As kids nationwide mix end of school celebrations with alcohol, a new study � nds that one in 12 Danish teens have serious substance abuse problems

RAY WEAVER

Youth drinking, it’s always someone else’s problem

513 - 19 July 2012 The Copenhagen posT CphposT.dk NEWSNEWS

Iraq refugees can’t be forced home

Anew policy in Iraq has forced Denmark to stop its practice of repatriating Iraqi refugees against

their will.Thousands of Iraqis fled their coun-

try to Europe after the US-led invasion in 2003. Since 2009, the number of Iraqi asylum seekers in Danish refugee centres has fallen drastically because many of them have been repatriated.

But the government in Iraq is re-fusing to let European countries force back thousands of Iraqis against their will after their requests for asylum have been denied. Baghdad has even threat-ened to fine airlines that participate in the return efforts.

Iraq’s embassy in Copenhagen has also begun refusing to grant travel per-mits to Iraqis that don’t want to return home, much to the consternation of the Danish immigration authorities.

Since the autumn of 2011, no Iraqis have been forcibly repatriated, according to police immigration unit NUC, and with the new Iraqi stance it has become virtually impossible to send asylum seekers back unless they go voluntarily.

“I feel that we have, or rather have had, a good relationship with the Iraqi authorities. But in my eyes the agree-

ment with Iraq still stands,” Claus Bir-kelyng, the NUC vice-chief, told Poli-tiken newspaper. “There have been no changes to the agreement, but it clearly makes it more difficult for us to return them when they don’t want to take them back.”

Over the past year, a number of le-gal disputes over forcible repatriations has led the United Kingdom to stop its practice of sending Iraqis home.

And this is good news, according to the London-based International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), an organisation campaigning against for-cible repatriations to Iraq.

“This is a great victory for Iraqi refugees, who are the victims of war and oppression. Denmark and Nor-way have been sending refugees back by force recently. They will now have to stop,” IFIR spokesperson, Dashty Jamal told The Guardian.

“I understand some people have already been turned back at the border since the weekend”.

The deportation issue follows in the wake of the high-profile case in-volving asylum seekers from a number of countries, slated for deportation, taking refuge in a church in Copen-hagen while staging a hunger strike to draw attention to their situation. The incident prompted asylum seekers throughout Denmark to protest.

In a message to parliament, Morten Bødskov (Socialdemokraterne) indicated that immigration officials are currently working with Iraq to find a solution.

Baghdad will no longer accept forcibly repatriated asylum seekers from Denmark and other European countries

Christian Wenande

C OUNtRIES around the world are standing by with baskets of cash to pour into Greenland’s

mining industry. In the wake of Chinese president Hu Jintao’s re-cent trip to Denmark, China has 13 billion kroner burning a hole in its pocket to invest in an iron mine near the capital city, Nuuk. A South Korean group report-edly wants to pump 15 billion kroner into the Kvanefield rare earth mine in southern Green-land, making it the single big-gest investment in the country’s history.

But any decision to start mining comes with a dilemma: extracting them will only be possible with uranium as a by-product, and Greenland’s gov-ernment has a zero-tolerance policy for any mining that in-volves uranium or kicks up ra-dioactive dust.

In 2010, Greenland’s gov-ernment allowed mining com-panies to explore the prospects for potential uranium mining.

The first company granted per-mission to include radioactive elements in its exploration phase was Greenland Minerals and En-ergy (GME), an Australia-based company that said that due to the high content of uranium, it could not complete any mining feasibility studies without violat-ing the zero-tolerance policy.

Greenland continues to up-hold its ban on mining radioac-tive elements, but the pressure is mounting to change this to allow for uranium by-products if other minerals are the primary targets.

“I hope we can soon change the zero-tolerance policy and produce the uranium that we have rather than being an open-air Arctic museum,” Doris Ja-kobsen, an MP for opposition party Siumut told Information newspaper. Jakobsen stressed that Greenland’s uranium would not be used to make weapons.

With Greenland sitting on some of the world’s largest uranium reserves and the avail-able world supply already falling short of demand, uranium could be a huge cash generator for Greenland’s struggling economy.

But the decision to mine uranium as a by-product has a host of domestic and interna-tional considerations.

Greenland’s leading political party, the left-leaning IA, con-

tinued to state its resistance to mining uranium while recognis-ing that the ban may soon be repealed.

“If one is totally realistic and considers the parliamentary situation, it might be difficult to continue to maintain a zero-tol-erance policy,” Sara Olsvig, one of Greenland’s representatives in the Danish parliament, told Information. “But the fact that we may soon abolish the ban means that we should also build the institutional knowledge that is necessary.”

If Greenland does decide to become a major exporter of ura-nium, the decision will have geo-political implications far beyond the borders of both Greenland and Denmark.

While Greenland’s three-year young Self-Rule govern-ment has domain over the coun-try’s natural resources, courts and corporate law, Denmark still has responsibility for its foreign affairs and defence.

Cindy Vestergaard, from the Danish Institute for Internation-al Studies (DIIS), said the debate over uranium will be a test of Greenland’s self-rule.

“Both Greenland and Den-mark have so far had a wait-and-see approach to exporting uranium. Greenland is responsi-ble for its own uranium exports but does not have the expertise

Greenland set to ease uranium mining policyInvestors are standing by to invest in mining in Greenland, but the country’s zero-tolerance uranium policy is standing in the way

These hills are alive with the sound of ... a geiger counter clicking

and resources for export control if the country becomes one of world’s top 10 suppliers,” Vester-gaard told Information.

In a report for DIIS, Vester-gaard said that crucial questions remain as to whether future Greenlandic uranium exports will be used in peaceful appli-cations, or inadvertently wind up as part of a nuclear weapons programme. She said that ura-nium is hard to track once it is available on the open market and called on elected officials in Nuuk and Copenhagen to think

ray Weaver

Ta

nb

re

ez

hard before lifting the ban.“These discussions must aim

at maximising the degree of reg-ulation: the worst-case scenario should not be that Greenland’s uranium be diverted or mis-used for weapons purposes,” she wrote.

Per Stig Møller, a former for-eign minister and Greenlandic spokesman for the Konservative party, agreed with Vestergaard:

“We would probably not think it’s a good idea to give nuclear material to Iran for example,” he told Berlingske

newspaper.Vestergaard called the world

uranium market “one of the most opaque and unregulated in the world”.

“Nuclear states can do what-ever they want, and that must always be in the mind of those who export uranium,” she told Information.

“If you ask the Australians if any of the uranium they have sent to the US in the last 30 years has been used in weapons they reply, ‘We are as sure as we can be that it has not’.”

Christian Wenande

A SERIES OF PRESS mishaps that occurred during the recent visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao will

result in changes to the way foreign media are approved to cover such visits in the future, the Foreign Ministry an-nounced last week.

The changes come after Chinese-language tV station, NtDtV, which is based in New York, was refused permission to participate in the press conferences involving members of the Chinese delegation.

Prior to Hu’s heavily covered visit, NtDtV, which is critical of the Chi-nese government, was informed by the Foreign Ministry that it had to apply for accreditation through the Chinese embassy, even though it was not based in China.

The accreditation application was denied on the grounds that NtDtV was founded by the outlawed Falun Gong religious movement.

Apologising for the situation, the foreign minister, Villy Søvndal, said his ministry, which issues press accredita-tion for state visits, is working on a new procedure to avoid similar errors in the future.

“I don’t think it was appropriate

that NtDtV was referred to the Chi-nese embassy in its attempts to secure accreditation, and I have requested that the accreditation procedure to be changed to avoid similar incidents in the future,” Søvndal wrote in a letter to parliament.

NtDtV, according to Søvndal, was actually granted accreditation by the Foreign Ministry’s International Press Centre (IPC), but another error meant that it never received word.

“By a mistake, the accreditation cards were not delivered to NtDtV. This was unfortunate, but I have been informed that the IPC has already es-tablished a new and clearer protocol,” Søvndal wrote. “It entails that all ac-credited journalists will be directly no-tified whether their request for accredi-

tation has been granted, and all cards will be directly delivered by the IPC.”

Another consequence of the Chinese visit was that accreditation for press outlets that are critical of their government will not have to go through their embassy, something that will prevent officials from attempting to quiet opposition voices.

The NtD accreditation incident was not the only irregularity that ac-companied the visit of the Chinese delegation. A Danish journalist was ar-rested and jailed for several hours for attempting to hang a poster that was critical of the regime in China, while a peaceful demonstration at Højbro Plads square was screened off by the police to prevent the Chinese delgation from seeing it.

Foreign minister promises new press procedure after China visit mix up

Accreditation for opposition press organisations will no longer have to go through their country’s embassy

An apologetic Søvndal will now make sure opposition journalists can cover state visits

sca

np

ix/T

or

kil

ad

ser

sen

6 13 - 19 July 2012THE COPENHAGEN POST CPHPOST.DKSPORT

ON SATURDAY, Fred-erik Løchte Nielsen became the � rst Dane to win a grand slam

tournament in 55 years when he lifted the Wimbledon doubles trophy, a victory that could send him back to London later this month as a member of the Dan-ish Olympic team.

Nielsen accomplished one of the greatest Danish tennis triumphs in history by winning men’s doubles at arguably the most prestigious tennis tourna-ment in the world. Not since Kurt Nielsen, Nielsen’s grandfa-ther, hoisted the US Open mixed doubles trophy in 1957 has any Dane won a grand slam tourna-ment.

Despite being an un-seeded, wildcard entry and therefore massive underdogs, Nielsen and partner Jonathan Marray de� ed

First we take Wimbledon, then London

Denmark’s new Wimbledon doubles champion needs just a single cancellation to be guaranteed a spot in the Olympics

CHRISTIAN WENANDE tennis lore by defeating the 2, 5, 8 and 9 seeds on their way to the title, including the Bryan broth-ers, the previous winners and dominating force of doubles ten-nis over the past decade.

To put it in perspective, Nielsen’s highest career ranking in singles is 190, and he had only quali� ed to the � rst round of one grand slam tournament be-fore this year’s Wimbledon. Mar-ray’s best singles ranking is even worse at 215. Going from that to winning Wimbledon is simply incomprehensible, according to Nielsen, who is also a massive Liverpool F.C. fan.

“� is means I can walk around calling myself a Wim-bledon champion, No one can take that away from me. I always believed we could win and when that smash went over the net I thought about 2005,” Nielsen told Ekstrabladet newspaper, re-ferring to Liverpool’s unimagina-ble come-back win in the 2005 Champions League � nal.

And the euphoria was evi-dent as Nielsen’s partner, Jona-than Marray, lifted him up in celebration after the un-seeded pair beat Robert Lindstedt and

Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 in the � nal. But that wasn’t the only lift for Nielsen.

Aside from the glory and the 1.2 million kroner cheque that the Wimbledon winners will col-lect, Nielsen received some more good news following his win.

Despite being told last month that he would not be par-ticipating in the London 2012 Olympics this summer, Nielsen’s mesmerising Wimbledon jour-ney has propelled him to the brink of becoming an Olympian after all.

� e top Danish men’s player is now the � rst wildcard back-up for the men’s singles in Lon-don and a cancelation from one of the eight wildcard holders would qualify him. And it also means that he could team up with Caroline Wozniacki in the mixed doubles. According to the International Tennis Federation, his new doubles ranking may even be enough to qualify him directly.

Denmark may just have a new Olympic hope, but time is running out. � e London Olympics begin on July 27.

IN A TOUR DE FRANCE weekend marred by crashes and injuries, Chris Anker

Sørensen’s determined e� orts to secure the polka-dotted moun-tain jersey were thwarted by an aggressive Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky.

It all started so well in last Saturday’s seventh stage as Sø-rensen led a breakaway and captured four mountain points from the � rst two category 3 mountain sprints. But then the peloton, led by a tenacious Brad-ley Wiggins and his Team Sky, set a blistering pace and caught the breakaway pack before they could reach the category 1 summit � nish which netted 20 points for the winner, Team Sky’s Chris Froome.

� e following day’s stage didn’t get any better for the Danish mountain hope, who was looking to earn points on the brutal route that included

one category 4, one category 3, four category 2 and one category 1 incline. But despite winning another four points, Sørensen didn’t have the legs that day and was once again reeled in by the relentless Team Sky.

“It was a seriously brutal stage and we never really worked together as a team. � ere were lots of strong riders that were racing individually in the break-away and that cost us in the end,” Sørensen said. “I went for the win but when we were caught, I still managed to hang on for a respectable placing. But the goal is unchanged and I’m going for a stage victory.”

� e disappointing weekend saw Sørensen fall 13 points be-hind in the competition for the mountain jersey. If he is to win the jersey this year, he will need to � nd his legs in time for the upcoming series of mountain stages in the Alps and the Pyr-enees.

Despite the setbacks, Team Saxo Bank-Tinko� Bank have performed well above expecta-tions in the Tour so far. � e team began on a high note with Michael Mørkøv’s multiple breakaways during the Tour’s � rst week and with new spon-sor money coming in, the future looks bright for team owner Bjarne Riis.

Riis used Tuesday’s rest day to look into strengthening his squad for next year’s season.

Team Saxo Bank-Tinko� Bank is said to be in talks with legendary time-trial specialist Fabian Cancellara, a former Riis rider who defected to the newly formed Team Leopard Trek in 2011. Two other former mem-bers of Riis teams, Danes Matti Breschel and Jakob Fuglsang, who has been in the dog house for criticising his Radio Shack-Nissan Team for leaving him out of the Tour, may also be headed to Team Saxo Bank-Tinko� Bank next season.

And this is certainly good news for Riis’s team, because while the Tour riders pedal away in France, Fuglsang justi� ed his criticism by winning the Tour of Austria over the weekend, and gaining valuable ranking points for the next team he represents. Fuglsang also won the Tour of Luxembourg in June.

In other news, Tour de France o� cials are speculating whether it is feasible to hold stages in Denmark. Denmark hosted two early stages of the Giro d’Italia this year. � e event was well attended, and that could lead to a Danish Tour de France stage down the road. However, chances are bleak that it will be a mountain stage.

Sørensen anchored despite setbacksCHRISTIAN WENANDE

Although Chris Anker Sørensen’s e� orts to win mountain points were dashed in the Tour de France’s � rst week, he’s still optimistic he can end the race as king of the mountains

WWW.CPHPOST.DK

DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME OR OFFICEEVERY WEEK FOR ONLY 1,200 KR PER YEAR

OR 750 KR FOR 6 MONTHS Contact: Dima at The Copenhagen Post on 33 36 42 48

or by email at [email protected] access to 65 museumsand attractions in the entire metropolitan areaSee more at copenhagencard.com

InOutThe CPH Post Entertainment Guide | 16 - 22 Sep

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT BUSTER! THE CHILDREN’S MOVIE FEST IS HERE

page G9

KIDS ON FILM

COPENHAGENwww.copenhagenbluesfest iva l .dk

FESTIVAL

SEPT. 28 - OCT. 2 · 2011

BLUESS e e f u l l p r o g r a m m e : w w w . c o p e n h a g e n b l u e s f e s t i v a l . d k & w w w . k u l t u n a u t . d k

John Primer w. Nisse Thorbjorn Band [US/DK]Joe Louis Walker [US] | Holmes Brothers [US]

Mud Morganfield w. Peter Nande Band [US/DK]Louisiana Red & Paul Lamb [US/UK] | Janice

Harrington w. Kenn Lending Blues Band [US/DK]

Keith Dunn Band [US/NL] | Johnny Max Band [CA]

Delta Blues Band | The Healers | Shades of BlueThorbjorn Risager | Troels Jensen | Alain Apaloo

H.P. Lange | Mike Andersen & Jens Kristian DamTutweiler | Fried Okra Band | The Blues Overdrive

Bluesoul | Grahn & Malm | Ole Frimer | Paul Banks

Jacob Fischer Trio | Svante Sjöblom | Jes Holtsoe


IThe CPH Post Entertainment Guide |

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT BUSTER!




YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT BUSTER! TTHE CHILDREN’S MOVIE FEST IS HERE

HE CHILDREN’S MOVIE FEST IS HERE





KIDS ON FILM

Page 10

Cheering a Muslim as we

do a Murderer!

ISRAEL

HAIF

A

TEL A

VIV

JERU

SALE

M

MAS

ADA

*ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT*

Is now the time to join the

euro, or to run like hell? 4

Get in or get out

4 - 10 November 2011 | Vol 14 Issue 44

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival

Special advertising section INSIDE!

7 - 20 NOVEMBER 2011

COPENHAGEN RENAISSANCE

7 - 20 NOVEMBER 2011MUSIC FESTIVAL

Phot

o: K

arst

en M

ovan

g

HOLMENS CHURCH

*ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT*

CHRISTIAN IVTHEATRE OF

VOICES

Phot

o: K

arst

en M

ovan

g

COPENHAGEN 1660

FROM SCHÜTZ TO GEISTEarly German Baroque Music 1600-1700

In commemoration of Christian Geist (c.1650-1711)

SPORT

National coach Morten Olsen’s new

contract will keep him in the job

until after the 2014 World Cup.

14

NEWS

Dane unable to obtain family

reunifi cation for his � ai girlfriend

says residency rules are a Catch-22

6

Exploiting ‘fat tax’

NEWS | 3

Supermarkets are scamming

their customers under the guise

of the new national ‘fat tax’

Warrior Jesus

HISTORY | 19

How Christianity borrowed from

Norse mythology and branded Jesus

as a tough guy in order to woo the

pagan Vikings

9 771398 100009

Discovering Israel: Inside the Holy Land

Special advertising section INSIDE!

Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk

Price: 25 DKK

ILLUST

RAT

ION

BY

PE

TE

R ST

AN

NE

RS

CAN YOU HAVE your cake and

eat it too? Conventional wisdom

says no, but with their � rst budg-

et plan since the shift of power,

the new Socialdemokraterne-Radikale-

Socialistisk Folkeparti (SRSF) coalition

appear to be giving it a shot.

Many of the elements of the new

budget – which is expected to be re-

leased in its entirety on � ursday – will

increase state spending at a time when

the budget de� cit has increased. But

where the money would come from re-

mained a mystery.A number of the new budget items

reinstate spending cuts made by the pre-

vious Venstre-Konservative (VK) govern-

ment. Here are a few of the major points:

Families: VK limited the state’s

monthly child support handouts (bør-

necheck) to 35,000 kroner per fam-

ily. � at limit has now been abolished,

meaning that many families will get

larger child bene� ts. � e government

will also pay for fertility treatments and

voluntary sterilisations.Welfare: VK and Dansk Folkeparti

(DF) introduced specialised welfare pro-

grammes that reduced the cash bene� ts

for new immigrants. � ose programmes

have now been eliminated and going

forward all residents in need of state

support will receive the same welfare

bene� ts. Higher education and research:

Universities will get an extra one billion

kroner over two years to cover costs as-

sociated with a predicted increase in

the number of students. Moreover, stu-

dents will no longer pay administrative

fees, and prospective Master’s students

will have prerequisite course tuitions

paid. � e government will also fund

1,500 more state-supported internship

positions.Infrastructure and job creation:

Some 17.5 billion kroner will be in-

vested over two years in infrastructure

projects, such as a new rail line between

Copenhagen and Ringsted, a project to

widen the Holbæk motorway, erosion

protection e� orts along Jutland’s west

coast, and renovations to public hous-

ing. Prime minister Helle � orning-

Schmidt has said that these ‘kickstart’

projects will create 20,000 new jobs

from 2012-2013. � e Danish Construc-

tion Association predicts 10,000.

Tax break: � e unpopular ‘mul-

timedia tax’ introduced by VK will be

abolished, saving some 525,000 Danes

with business laptops and mobile

phones 3,000 kroner per year.

Not everyone, however, can look for-

ward to a cash infusion. Smokers and junk

food lovers will be taxed higher on their

vices, while international corporations

will also see higher tax bills. SRSF plans

to raise revenue by closing a number of

tax loopholes going back nearly 20 years

that allowed international corporations

in Denmark to escape paying corporate

taxes (see more on page 15).

All told, the spending increases in the

new budget are not as big as the minister

of the economy and interior, Margrethe

Vestager (R), would like. She noted that

VK under-reported the de� cit for 2012,

making it imprudent to spend more. But

Denmark will still meet the EU’s � nan-

cial responsibility benchmarks, despite

the larger de� cit, she added.

A new budget to ‘kickstart’ the economy

SRSF’s � rst budget will spend 17.5 billion

kroner on infrastructure and abolish

previous taxes and restrictions

JENNIFER BULEY

FULL TIME MBA - INFORMATION MEETING

The one-year general management full-time MBA at CBS focuses on

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Practical Business Skills.

E-mail [email protected] or call 3815 6022 to sign up for the meeting.

Join Scandinavia’s most internationally diverse program

Thursday 17th November 17:30-19:00

Copenhagen Business School

Porcelænshaven 22, 2000 Frederiksberg

www.cbs.dk/ftmba

The one-year general management full-time MBA at CBS

focuses on leadership, entrepreneurship, and real-world experience.

Organise a personal meeting and hear how the MBA can give

your career a new dimension.

E-mail [email protected] or call 3815 6022

to organise a personal meeting.

Organise a personal meeting

and sit in on a class.

FULL TIME MBA

Copenhagen Business School

Porcelænshaven 22, 2000 Frederiksberg

www.cbs.dk/ftmba

� e Wimbledon triumph could lift Nielsen to Olympic heights, with a bit of luck

While Chris Anker Sørensen struggled, the sky seems to be the limit for Bjarne Riis and Danish cycling

SCA

NP

IX/T

OB

Y M

ELV

ILLE

SCA

NP

IX/B

OG

DA

N C

RIST

EL

A Danish course at IA Sprog on Saturdays offers:

Busy working or studying during the week? Try IA Sprog:Contact: 3888 3233

• Acombinationofclassroominstruction,selfstudyandonlinelearning

• Thenewesttechnologyandlearningtools• Professionalteachers• Speedandleveltailoredtoeachstudent

Learn DanishStarttheweekendwithinstructiveandefficientlanguagelearning

IA SPROGHejrevej26,2ndfloor2400CopenhagenNV

Phone:38883233Mail: [email protected]: www.iasprog.dk

8 13 - 19 July 2012THE COPENHAGEN POST CPHPOST.DKBUSINESS

AIR CHINA recently opened its Danish internet site, www.airchi-na.dk, which keeps customers up to speed on real-time � ight sta-tuses, � ight schedules and contact numbers of the carrier’s represent-ative o� ces worldwide. Air China is China’s only national � ag car-rier and a Star Alliance member. With Beijing as its hub, Air China � ies to 1,160 destinations in 181 countries and recently added a Copenhagen to Beijing route.

Air China, now online

WW

W.N

ATIO

NA

LBA

NK

EN

.DK

CO

LOU

RB

OX

Last week’s move to negative interest rates on deposits in Nationalbanken is designed to reduce the attractiveness of the krone against the euro

Dip in Danes studying second foreign language

B anks will now have to pay to have their mon-ey in the central bank, Nationalbanken, after

interest rates last week dropped into the negative for the � rst time ever.

Interest on deposits in the Nationalbank now lies at -0,2 percent while lending rates were cut to 0.2 percent.

� e move was made last � ursday and comes after inter-est rates on government bonds dipped into negative territory in June – investors end up pay-ing to purchase the bonds rather than being paid for lending the

Sell 5.91 5.74 7.33 0.07 0.17 0.83 6.08 9.21 5.93

Buy 6.44 6.21 7.56 0.08 0.19 0.87 6.28 9.58 6.21

AustralianDollarsAUD

CanadaDollarsCAD

EuroEUR

JapanYenJPY

RussiaRublesRUB

SwedenKronor

SEK

SwitzerlandFrancsCHF

UKPoundsGBP

United StatesDollarsUSD

Exchange Rates

Price in kroner for one unit of foreign currency Date: 11 July 2012

PETER STANNERS

ELISE BEACOM

Banks paying to deposit money in central bank

Banks will now pay a premium for the security Nationalbanken o� ers

English skills are important for keeping the economy growing, but they shouldn’t overshadow other tongues

DANES ARE considered to be some of the best non-native English speakers in

the world, but fewer are choos-ing to study two or more foreign languages, a study has found.

� e number of Danes who have mastered at least two for-eign languages has dropped by eight percent since 2005, ac-cording to the recent European Commission report.

While 58 percent of Danes speak more than two foreign languages � uently – a compara-tively high � gure against the European average of 25 percent – business experts say the decline

is of concern.Jannik Schack Linnemann,

the head of research policy at chamber of commerce Dansk Erhverv, told Berlingske newspa-per that Denmark derives more than half its GDP from exports – a sector that is responsible for employing 700,000 people. “We need to become better equipped when it comes to the languages used in exporting industries,” he said.

In response to the European Commission’s report � ndings, the education minister, Morten Østergaard (R), told Berlingske his ministry will focus more on how to promote language cours-es at school and university. “It is extremely worrying. � is is the opposite of what we need in a globalised world.”

� e Education Ministry last week received an updated report

government money, as is usually the case.

� e krone has been under increasingly intense pressure from investors that started to purchase the currency which is seen as a safe haven compared to the euro.

As a result the krone risked strengthening too much against the euro, which placed pressure on the tight peg that Nation-albanken tries to keep with the common currency.

Speaking to � nanical daily Børsen, Sydbank’s chief econo-mist Jacob Graven said that the decision to reduce the interest rates was made to defend the Danish economy.

“Nationalbanken is reducing the interest in order to make it a little less attractive to investors to invest in the Danish krone com-pared to the euro,” Graven said.

With banks now facing the extra cost associated with lending to Nationalbanken, concern has been voiced that consumers may

end up shouldering the burden.Karsten Ahlquist, Danske

Bank group managing director, told Politiken that no decision had yet been made on whether to pass on the cost, but added that, “of course it costs us money when it starts costing us to have money in Nationalbanken.”

Christian Hilligsøe Heinig, chief economist at RealKredit Danmark, a mortgage lender, also told Politiken that most people were unlikely to notice any change.

“� e reduction in the inter-est rate and negative bond inter-est demonstrate the continuing bad economic climate and nerv-ousness of investors rather than anything that will have a notice-able e� ect on the Danish econo-my or households,” he said.

� e move last � ursday im-mediately followed announce-ments by the ECB, the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of England that they would ease their monetary policies.

Fewer Danes are � uent in two or more foreign languages, says study

BUSINESS NEWS AND BRIEFS

THE KRONE will soon have company in some ATMs. Sydbank said it is making euro bank notes available in their cash machines throughout the coun-try. Sydbank said that if cus-tomers needed euros previously, they had to come into a branch o� ce during business hours. � e bank’s goal is to serve some of those customers by allowing them to use ATMs. A spokesman said customers want more and

more banking services to be avail-able around the clock and on de-mand. Henrik Følbæk Nielsen, managing director of Sydbank, said the bank is just keeping up with its customers. “We want to be a modern enterprise that uses the tools that are available,” Nielsen told Frederiksborg Amts Avis newspaper. � e bank has been trying out the new ma-chines at three of its branches for the past few months.

Euro on demand


• official media partner

So you’ve seen our events and been impressed, but you can attend as a non-member so there’s

no reason to consider joining, right?

BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN DENMARK

If you would like to know more about Corporate, Small Business or Individual membership of BCCD,then please contact Nina Norheim: [email protected] or call +45 3118 7558.

*Membership benefits vary by membership category.

Except... You don’t get to come to our Christmas ReceptionYou pay 125 – 350kr for each event you attendYou are peripheral to the network – would you refer business to someone you don’t know??

Wouldn’t you rather...Make an active contribution to BCCD?Attend seminars and on the way home meetings free of charge?Attend lunches and socials either at cost price or free of charge?*Profile your business, news and events via our website and newsletter (1200 subscribers and growing)?*

regarding a national foreign lan-guage education strategy. One of the recommendations is that school students take English starting at age 6 and a second foreign language at age 9.

Alan Brejnholt, University student, is one of the shrinking number of Danes studying a sec-ond foreign language. He is tak-ing intensive German classes in order to get into a Copenhagen Business School master’s pro-gramme that requires students to be � uent in at least two foreign languages.

“While English is really important, one reason I study a second foreign language is to do with the link between culture and language,” Brejnholt said. “I think it also shows prospective employers willpower, determina-tion and an interest in di� erent cultures.”

SPOUSE: Debjani Nandy Biswas FROM: IndiaSEEKING WORK IN: Would like to join in kindergarten, School teacher in English, o� cial work in English.QUALIFICATION: B.A., M.A in English literature and language (American, European and Indian). EXPERIENCE: Temporary school teacher in Bongaon, India and involved in social work (handicapped society).LOOKING FOR: A possibility in getting practical experiences in kindergarten or any international school, o� cial work (administration) in English, voluntary work also.LANGUAGE SKILLS: English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali, little Danish (currently learning).IT EXPERIENCE: Diploma in basic computer applications.CONTACT: [email protected], Tel: +45 50219942.

PARTNERS:THE COPENHAGEN POST SPOUSE EMPLOYMENT PAGE

THE COPENHAGEN POST SPOUSE EMPLOYMENT PAGE

WHY: The Copenhagen Post wishes to help spouses looking for jobs in Denmark. We have on our own initiative started a weekly spouse job page in The Copenhagen Post, with the aim to show that there are already within Denmark many highly educated international candidates looking for jobs.If you are a spouse to an international employee in Denmark looking for new career opportunities, you are welcome to send a pro� le to The Copenhagen Post at [email protected] and we will post your pro� le on the spouse job page when possible. Remember to get it removed in case of new job.


SPOUSE: Teja Priyanka FROM: IndiaSEEKING WORK IN: CopenhagenQUALIFICATION: MBA in Finance and marketing , bachelor in Biotechnology.LANGUAGE SKILLS: Telugu(mother tounge), Hindi, English, Danish(biggnier).IT EXPERIENCE: Familier with Microsoft o� ce(word, excel,powerpoint,access, ), photoshop.CONTACT: [email protected]

SPOUSE: Sadra Tabassi FROM: IranSEEKING WORK IN: CopenhagenQUALIFICATION: Master of Business Administration (MBA)LOOKING FOR: Any full time job related to my quali� cation � eldLANGUAGE SKILLS: Languages Fluent in English; Native in Farsi (Persian) and elementary level of Arabic.IT EXPERIENCE: Basic knowledge about computer (Windows), O� ce 2010 (Word, Excel, Power Point),Statistical software (SPSS)CONTACT: [email protected], Tel:+4550337753

The Embassy in Copenhagen has an immediate vacancy for a part-time LEIV Consular Assistant. This vacancy is for an initial period of 12 months with a possibility of renewal.

The British Embassy in Copenhagen provides consular advice and services to British residents and over 150,000 British visitors annually to Denmark. The Embassy is part of the wider Northern and Western European consular region. The successful candidate will be working closely with the British Vice-Consul, often under pressure and sometimes dealing with extremely sensitive cases.

The main duties include:• Issuing emergency travel documents, fee-taking, and dealing with customers at the counter;• Dealing directly with members of the public;• Producing local management information through collecting statistical data and creating excel spreadsheets to strict deadlines;• Providing clerical support to the section, organising meetings, hotel bookings and travel, and updat-ing standard lists;• Dealing with incoming correspondence and answering telephone calls;• Liaising with commercial partners and the Danish authorities.

Requirements:• Excellent organisational skills;• Ability to work well under pressure;• Fluent English language skills, knowledge of spoken and written Danish an advantage;• Good communication and interpersonal skills;• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel;• Flexibility, patience, and the ability to deal with difficult situations, including the ability to work unsocial hours in an emergency or crisis;• A high level of discretion and ability to accept responsibility.

The British Embassy offers a diverse/international environment which is challenging and change-ori-ented. In addition to salary the remuneration package includes a competitive pension and benefits package and training.

Applications along with a CV should be sent (in English) by 23 July 2012 to: [email protected]

Please note that only the candidates selected for interview will be contacted. We aim for interviews to take place in the week commencing 30th July 2012.

VACANCY NOTICE PART-TIME LEIV CONSULAR ASSISTANT

Biotech Job Vacancies

For more information and other job vacancies visit our webpage www.cphpost.dk/jobvacancies

International Clinical Trial Co-ordinator, Reproductive Health (temp)International Clinical Trial Manager, Reproductive HealthResearch Technician, Bioanalysis (temp)International Clinical Trial Co-ordinator, UrologySenior Toxicologist, R&D Clinical & Non-Clinical Development

Ferring

Novo NordiskService Manager, IT OperationsQMS ProfessionalSenior Category ManagerInternship, Novo Nordisk Product Supply FinanceMedical SpecialistClinical Trial Administrator

Leo-PharmaService Manager, IT OperationsQMS ProfessionalSenior Category ManagerInternship, Novo Nordisk Product Supply FinanceMedical SpecialistClinical Trial AdministratorProject Manager to Supply Chain SupportAdvanced IT Quality Advisor

Lundbeck

Novozymes

Service Manager, IT OperationsQMS ProfessionalSenior Category ManagerInternship, Novo Nordisk Product Supply FinanceMedical Specialist

Quality professionalResearch ScientistExperienced HR Business partner

Company Name: �Contact Name: Email: �Telephone: �Fax: � �Websites: �

Company Details

Cpl Language Jobs

What Languages do we Recruit for?

Who is Cpl?

CroatianCzechDanish EstonianFinnishFlemish

FrenchGermanGreek ItalianJapaneseLatvian

NorwegianPolishPortugueseRussianSlovakSlovenian

SpanishSwedishSwiss GermanTurkish

If you would like to get more information on Cpl Language Jobs, please don’t

hesitate to get in touch.

Cpl Language JobsLouise [email protected]+353 16146002+353 16147283www.cpl.ie www.cpljobs.com

Cpl Integrated Services is currently recruiting for fluent Danish speakers for technical and customer service roles with Hewlett Packard in Ireland.

Do you want to work with Hewlett Packard?

We require a good level of English, fluent Danish, a strong interest/previous experience in IT and customer

service experience. Entry level and experienced IT professionals required.

Send your CV to [email protected] or call +353 1 614 6070 for more information

Scan Me!

SPOUSE: Shilpa Lingaiah FROM: IndiaSEEKING WORK IN: Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and nearby areas of the mentioned cities.QUALIFICATION: PG Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (JSS University, India); Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (RGUHS, India). Danish agency for international education has assessed the above quali� cation and corresponds to Danish Master’s degree in Health Sciences.LOOKING FOR: Research related to health science, jobs in pharmaceutical industry or new challenging career opportunities.LANGUAGE SKILLS: English(� uent written and spoken), Enrolled for Danish language classes, Indian languages(Kannada and Hindi).IT EXPERIENCE: MS O� ce.CONTACT: [email protected] Tel: +4552742859

SPOUSE: DR TESSA KATE ANDERSON FROM: UKSEEKING WORK IN: University, education, research, social science, geography, GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography.EXPERIENCE: PhD from UCL (UK) in GIS and road safety, Assistant Professor at University of Canterbury, New Zealand for 3 years, Assistant Professor in GIS at University of Queensland for 1 year, Research Fellow at University of Hong Kong for 3 years. I have experience in project management and working in both the private and public sector. I have taught up to Masters level and have design courses and taught extensively.LOOKING FOR: Research, teaching, consultancy positions.LANGUAGE SKILLS: English, French (small amount), Chinese (beginner), I am enrolled at Danish language schoolIT EXPERIENCE: ArcGIS, MapInfo, GeoDa, Global Mapper, GWR, Python, Image J, SPSS, Excel, Work, PowerPoint, Access, Dreamweaver, Adobe, SAS, open source GIS programmes.CONTACT: [email protected]

10 13 - 19 July 2012THE COPENHAGEN POST CPHPOST.DK

C LIMATICALLY-CORRECT but depressingly early I think, September is the � rst month of autumn. But there is nothing

depressing about the garden in this, the mellowest of the season. Summer is the time to keep up with the weed-ing, to ensure all your plants are well watered (especially those in containers), to enjoy the harvest from the kitchen garden or those pots you planted with tomatoes, strawberries and herbs, and to take some time to simply relax in your garden and enjoy the fruits of your labours. � e latter is particularly important as the autumn brings with it a � urry of activity – both in terms of activities directly associated with the season and those involved with forward planning.

� e plot thickens

If you have a plot in which you grow fruits and vegetables, autumn is the time for fruits and berries, so pick early apples (the Danish cultivar ‘Ingrid Marie’ is a winner if you are thinking of planting an apple tree), autumn raspberries and cobnuts, and feast! And if you don’t have a kitchen garden may I encourage you to plan and plant one next year. � ere is simply nothing more satisfying than planting, growing and eating your own. On top of the satisfaction factor, they taste so much better freshly harvested than something that has spent time in a truck travelling from Spain or wher-ever. And more than that, by growing your own you can control exactly what you eat – garden organically to avoid pesticide residues, grow heritage varie-ties for taste and no GM. You know it makes sense!

Manure couture

If my plea has convinced you, or wheth-er you simply want a new � ower bed, it is time to plan ahead and to prepare the soil. � is can be done anytime until the frosts and requires a bit of elbow grease. Clear the area of grass and weeds (don’t use weedkillers if you plan to grow edi-bles), and using a spade, turn over the soil while adding a good amount of manure – about half a barrowload per square metre. � e best I have found is a product called ‘� n C-muld’ produced by Lynge Naturgoedning of Farum (www.lyngenaturgoedning.dk). Once you have dug in the manure, leave the soil surface of the rough (big lumps) over the winter and let the frost break

down the soil into a perfect texture ready for spring planting.

Looking after them indoors

Once the evenings begin drawing in and frosts ap-p r o a c h – it

always hap-pens earlier than I think it will – bring in all the indoor plants that have been having a holiday out-side, but give them a feed of liquid fertiliser � rst. And if you haven’t put them outside this summer, do so next year after the last frosts – they will re-ally enjoy the change. If you have semi-tender plants in borders, for example like dahlias, dig them up after the � rst frost, wash and dry them and store in a dark, frost-free place before planting again next year after the last frost.

A lawn � t for tennis

If you want a new one, lay a lawn in

September, and if you have one, begin the autumn schedule of lawn care in

October. Raise the mower cut to 3-5 cm, dig out any perennial weeds

such as dandelions, give the lawn a last feed, and get on with the scarifying (using a springbok rake to remove dead material

amongst the grass) and aer-ating (plunge a fork into

the lawn all over and lifting gently to

improve drain-age.) Also rake

up all the fallen leaves

to prevent the grass

b e -

neath yellowing, and brush worm casts

over the lawn.

Permission for ignition

Once the perennials have died back, cut them back, but one word of caution when you are clearing your garden this

autumn. If you are English, you may be familiar with that lovely autumnal smell of the garden bon� re. Here, you had better check with your council whether you are allowed to burn gar-den rubbish. Otherwise recycle it at the genbrugsstation.

Bulbs: not just for Christmas.

One job that is an autumn speciality is planting the bulbs (blomsterløg) that will provide a great show next spring. For example tulips (tulipaner), crocus (krokus), hyacinth (hyacint), da� odils (påskelilge), crown imperial fritillary (ke-jserkrone), winter aconite (erantis) and Siberian squill (Russisk skilla.) By the way, snowdrops (vintergæk) are planted in the summer when the leaves are still green.

Bulbs really are very obliging plants – they are inexpensive to buy, straightfor-ward to plant and once in the ground are happy doing their own thing, requiring virtually no maintenance. You can give bulbs their own bed and make a striking display using big masses of a single type of bulb in di� erent colours, for example pink, blue, white and yellow hyacinths; or red and yellow tulips, by mixing to-gether di� erent types of bulb. You can slot a mix of di� erent species into ex-isting beds and borders, so that as they � nish doing their thing, the perennials and shrubs will take over, thus creating a long season of interest.

Bulbs in the garden – How to:

� e depth at which bulbs should be planted is three times their height, so for a tulip, which is maybe 2.5 cm tall, plant at 7.5 cm deep. And the spacing between individual bulbs should be two to three times their width apartFor small numbers of bulbs, dig individ-ual holes using a trowel or special bulb planting tool that takes out a core of soil, put the bulb in with the growing point uppermost, and replace the soil.For large numbers of bulbs dig out a trench to the appropriate depth, posi-tion the bulbs, and cover the whole areaIf you have a balcony you can plant bulbs in a pot and keep them outside. But do protect them from the hard-est frosts as plants in pots are more vulnerable than those in the soil. Most garden centres have a good range of bulbs for sale and a couple of web-sites you may wish to check are www.blomsterverden.dk, www.hollandske-blomster.dk, www.blomsterliv.dk and www.plantetorvet.dk.

Caroline CainNaturopathic Nutritionist & ReflexologistCaroline CainNaturopathic Nutritionist & ReflexologistCaroline CainNaturopathic Nutritionist & Reflexologist

www.carolinecain.dktel: 50 19 76 06

Natural health and detox specialist guiding and motivating you to create optimal, lasting

health.

Halmtorvet 19 • The Bosch building • DK-1700 Copenhagen V Tlf: +45 33 31 20 00 • [email protected] • www.biomio.dk



BioMio is Denmark´slargest 100% organicrestaurant.Flavoured with love, passion & purpose

• What is a CPR number & that little yellow card?• Want to say “hej” to Danish?• Want to find the perfect neigbourhood?

RELOCATION GUIDESPRING 2012

Download from our website

www.cphpost.dk

A plan for all seasonsBY TOBY MUSGRAVE

Toby Musgrave is one of Britain’s most celebrated gardeners – both as an author, historian and design consultant – but yet he has lived in Denmark this past decade, so who better to turn to, to � nd out everything you need to know about preparing for and enjoying the di� erent seasons. Find out more at www.tobymusgrave.com.

Health

Garden

Food

Sport

For four weeks at a time, four times a year, our aim is to give you all the sea-sonal lifestyle advice you need to thrive in the areas of gardening, health, food and sport. When should you plant your petunias, when does the birch pol-len season normally start, which week do the home-grown strawberries take over the supermarket, and which outdoor sports can you play in the snow? All the answers are here in ‘A plan for all seasons’.

Next week

LIFESTYLE: SUMMER GARDENINGA

LLA

N M

UT

UK

UK

OR

TB

ÆK

Strandgade 27 B1401 Copenhagen www.dac.dk

a world of architecture & designexhibitionsCAFebooKs/shoP Visit us at the harbour front in central copenhagen

Summer in Denmark: 13-19 July 2012

9

Regional | Central Jutland

StayDepending on your preference, a variety of needs can be catered to – from

one of Denmark’s 550 camping sites to luxury hotels, historic houses, hos-

tels and even a farm holiday, where you can be immersed in Denmark’s

countryside culture. In Aarhus, City Hotel Oasia is a friendly, bright, mini-

malist and charming hotel.

Ourpick!

Eat

Aarhus restaurant Nordens Folkekokken presents a locally sourced, seasonal menu of Danish food. Aarhus also has a

variety of restaurants that offer flavours from around the world – Gallorant Kif-Kif offers a fusion of Mediterranean and

Tunisian dishes at reasonable prices. If it is pizza or pasta you crave, Italia is considered the best quality and value for the

money. For something livelier at night, Jacob’s barBQ offers a messy yet tasty menu as well as a piano bar and nightclub.

For a reasonably priced Eastern European lunch buffet, try Det Grønne Hjørne.

Ourpick!

Ourpick!

DoIn Billund, visit Legoland, where detailed miniature cities and

famous landmarks made from the small plastic bricks are sure

to fascinate. In Vejle, take a trip to Ecolarium, a centre that

aims to raise awareness about environmental issues and the

potential of alternative energy. Grejsdalen valley northwest of

Vejle is Denmark’s largest gorge. The area is unique, and the

scenery striking with forest-covered slopes. Silkeborg offers a

variety of activities, such as canoeing and hiking. Try to see

the impressive view from Himmelbjerget (the Sky Mountain)

near Ry. For those interested in history, the 2,400-year-old

remains of the perfectly preserved Tollund Man provide a fas-

cinating glimpse of the past, as do the other Iron Age findings

at Silkeborg Museum, the city’s oldest building.

Experience Silkeborg Hjejlen, the world’s oldest

coal-burning paddle steamer. With tranquil lakes,

magnificent highland areas and many inns (kroer)

that deliver Danish hospitality with local flavours

to keep you satisfied, it’s the perfect alternative to

bustling towns.

Scenic Malling og Schmidt’s Nordic cuisine is pricy, but it’s frequently named as one of the best restaurants in Aarhus.

It aims to reflect the flavours of Denmark, giving guests ‘an intimate culinary view of Jutland’ (mallingschmidt.dk).

Stay a night or two in a cosy inn, many of which have

retained their 18th-century rusticity. They can often be

found in the open countryside, surrounded by beautiful

scenery. Search for accommodation to find something

that suits your location at visitdenmark.dk.


8

Regional | Central Jutland

From the vibrancy of Denmark’s second-largest city to some of the nation’s oldest historical artefacts, central Jutland is at the crossroads of Denmark’s past and present

By Stephanie Harvey

Central Jutland Central Jutland is home to enchanting towns, lakes and dense

forests. Whether it’s the old fortress city of Fredericia in the

south or Viborg, Denmark’s second-oldest provincial town,

to the north, central Jutland is a varied and historic area. The

west is characterised by isolated coastlines and heather-

topped moors; Ringkobing Fjord is an ideal spot to watch for

seals and porpoises. Western Denmark’s countryside is an

abundant landscape of small hills and farms that are steeped

in Viking history, while busier cities such as Aarhus and Silke-

borg offer a cosmopolitan break. Regardless of whether

they live in town or country, the local residents appreciate

their landscape and culture. Central Jutland easily contrasts

its accessible and rich countryside with cobbled and brightly

painted towns that are full of museums, cafés and areas of

architectural interest. Local attractions like Legoland, aquari-

ums, elaborate mazes and scores of summer festivals means

there’s always plenty to do in central Jutland.

In central Jutland’s northeastern corner, you’ll find Ebel-

toft, a scenic town with crooked streets, local handicraft

shops, half-timbered buildings and home to the 1860 Jyl-

land, the oldest man-of-war sailing ship in Denmark. Wan-

dering the cobblestone streets is like going back in time. Due

to two centuries of economic stagnation, it remained virtually

untouched. But in the 1960s, it suddenly became a tourist at-

traction: this town is the largest gateway to the Mols Bjerge

national park, famous for its varied coastline and moraine

hills formed by glaciers 14,000 years ago.

From here, you can reach Denmark’s major seaport and

second-largest city, Aarhus. A vibrant hub with 40,000 stu-

dents, it has many winding, colourful streets, and the canal

side brims with cafés and bars. ARoS, a contemporary art

museum, is visible throughout the town due to its famous

rainbow panorama that crowns the city. There are a variety

of bookshop cafés that offer quality coffee and cake in cosy

surroundings, such as Løves Bog- og Vincafé.

Aarhus is the ideal mix of countryside and city. The park

called ‘Dyrehaven’ has free-roaming and friendly deer; to the

south of Aarhus lies Risskov forest, where the far-reaching

sandy beach is easily accessible for a quick dip or a picnic if

the weather is good. There is also ‘Den permanente’ – a his-

torical outdoor sea bath with saunas and a sheltered beach.

Vikings settled here 1,200 years ago, and the treasures of

Moesgard Museum explore this history in addition to hous-

ing the mummified Graubelle Man of 80 BC. The Silkeborg

Lake District is nearby, which contains Mossø, Denmark’s

largest lake, and the Labyrinthia theme park is perfect for a

challenging day in the world of mazes.

Many historical sites are tucked away in unassuming villages.

Built in 1100, Veng Abbey is Denmark’s oldest monastery, and

close by is Skanderborg Castle, a traditional hunting retreat for

Danish kings from the 12th to 16th centuries. To the south lies

the quietly important and UNESCO-protected village of Jell-

ing, once the royal seat for King Gorm the Old, a 10th-century

Viking who conquered Jutland, Funen and Zealand to estab-

lish Denmark. There are two runic stones here: the smaller and

older of them has an inscription in memory of Gorm’s wife,

and it is considered to be the first recorded use of the name

‘Denmark’. As in many Danish towns during summer months,

history is brought to life during an immersive Viking festival in

July. For thrills of a wilder kind, there is Givskud Zoo, where

you can drive through the largest pride of lions in Scandinavia.

Further north is Ringkobing Fjord, where a narrow piece of

sandy land just 35 kilometres long separates the Fjord from

the North Sea; it’s the perfect place for watersports, and the

historic town is an idyllic vacation spot.

NEXT WEEK: SOUTHERN JUTLAND NEXT WEEK: SOUTHERN JUTLAND NEXT WEEK: SOUTHERN JUTLAND

History and culture in the Danish heartland

Central Jutland

7

Island Hopping | SamsøSummer in Denmark: 13-19 July 2012

Skipperly Restaurant, Ballen. Charming atmosphere with

fantastic seafood dishes and an ambience that harks back

to the age of salty sea dogs (skipperly.dk).

If you fancy a bit of luxury, check out the

Ilse Made hotel, which also has an excel-

lent restaurant (ilsemade.dk).

uGetting thereFerries run several times daily from Kalundborg in Zealand to

Kolby Kås, and Hou in Jutland to Sælvig. Maximum crossing time

is 2 hours. For more details, check out faergen.com.

to a nearby farmhouse that is preserved as it

looked in the 19th century.

On the eastern side of the island, not far from Traneb-

jerg, is Ballen. This lively fishing village has a beach and

a number of seafood restaurants, including a smokehouse

where you can sample traditional smoked seafood. We

stopped to have lunch at the excellent Skipperly Restau-

rant, which serves up fresh dishes and herrings galore in

a cosy ‘olde-worlde’ building that pays homage to the

ships of yesteryear. Nearby, you can buy locally made ice

cream and perhaps sample some of the area’s wine. Yes,

that’s right – Samsø might be known for its new potatoes

and strawberries, but wine production is perhaps one of

the more surprising growth industries here, and you can

visit some of the vineyards to see for yourself.

If you want to sample more of the island’s produce, it’s

a simple matter of just travelling around the back roads

and stopping by local farms. Many of them have honesty

boxes at the gate, and you can load up with honey, jam,

strawberries, potatoes, onions and plenty more. Shops –

who needs them?

For us, it was but a flying visit. We hopped on the 16:45

ferry and were back in Copenhagen in the evening. So,

while it is a perfectly practical day trip, staying on the

island a little longer would be the ideal choice, and Samsø

has plenty of accommodation options to choose from.

With everything from swish boutique hotels, guest hous-

es, B&Bs, campsites and holiday cottages, you’ll never be

stuck for somewhere to stay.

Neither is there any shortage of things to see and do on

Samsø. During your visit, you can get lost in a giant for-

ested maze, play golf, pet animals on a farm, go sailing or

diving, ride around in a horse-drawn carriage or roll down

a hill in a giant plastic ball. And it goes without saying that

the island has numerous art galleries and craft shops, sell-

ing ceramics, paintings and handmade cosmetics. Samsø

might be small, but it definitely offers plenty to keep you

entertained while you’re there.

Stay

Camping with your own tent or caravan is a pop-

ular – and cheap – way to enjoy Samsø. There

are three campsites found on the island: Sælvig

Bugtens Camping (saelvigbugtens-camping.dk),

Strandskov Camping (strandskovscamping.dk)

and Kiltgaard Camping (klitgaardcamping.dk).

EatSamsø has many restaurants catering

to a variety of tastes. All of them go

in for fresh local produce with many

also serving fresh seafood, such as

herrings, langoustine and crab. If you

want an expensive treat, head down

to the Ballen Badehotel, which serves

up excellent fare (ballenbadehotel.

dk). At the other end of the scale –

but no less of an experience – head

across the harbour to Røgeriet, where

various smoked delicacies are served

up (rogeriet.dk).

DoBeing a popular destination, Samsø has something for everyone. Real ale lovers

should head down to the Samsø Brewery for a tipple (samsoe-bryghus.dk), or if

you haven’t yet reached drinking age, perhaps a roll down a hill in a giant plastic

ball is more appropriate (samsodownhill.dk).

Ourpick!

Ourpick!

Ourpick!

Nothing beats travelling around Samsø at a leaisurely pace with the

wind in your face. You can rent both regular and battery-assisted bikes

at the ferry terminal and Ballen (samsocykeludlejning.dk).

u

6

Summer in Denmark: 13-19 July 2012Island Hopping | Samsø

There and back again – in just a day The island of Samsø has gained international renown for being carbon-negative. What few might realise is that it’s also perfect for a day trip

By Jason Heppenstall

SamsøSituated right in the middle of the sea between Zealand and

Jutland, Samsø is a beautiful small island famed for the qual-

ity of its produce as well as its eco-conscious residents. You

can easily get there from both Zealand and Jutland aboard

ferries that depart several times each day. One of the best

ways to explore the island is on a bicycle – you can either

bring your own or rent one when you arrive at the ferry ter-

minal. The island is also famous for its many dining and ac-

commodation options; it is a perennial favourite with Danish

holidaymakers. You can try fresh seafood and wash it down

with a glass (or two) of the local wine or beer. What’s more,

there is plenty to do, with golfing and sailing being particularly

popular activities. Samsø offers something for everyone, and

it’s within easy striking distance from most places in Denmark.

HAVE YOU ever wondered what a Samsinger is?

Could it be someone who spends Friday evenings

in Sam’s Bar on Strøget, belting out karaoke num-

bers? Or perhaps some kind of skylark-like bird that sings

its song high above the duney beaches of Jutland? No, in

fact a Samsinger is someone who comes from a small Dan-

ish island found 15 kilometres off the Jutland coast – a place

that is renowned the world over for something special.

I’ll get into what makes the place famous in due course,

but for now all you need to know is that, in any beauty

contest between Danish islands, Samsø would probably be

favoured to win. When you try to imagine this small island

in your mind’s eye, picture a gently undulating landscape

dotted with villages of thatched cottages, orchards hum-

ming with bees and fields of strawberries. Like every other

Danish isle, it’s a peaceful place best explored at a leisurely

pace, preferably on foot or by bicycle.

I must admit that I had heard so many good things about

Samsø that I felt somewhat ashamed that I had never vis-

ited until now. And with Denmark’s compact size, there is

simply no excuse for not visiting some of its most beautiful

areas. So one Saturday morning, I simply jumped in the car

and drove out west towards the coast of Zealand. From

Copenhagen, it’s an easy hour and a quarter to Kalundborg

in time to catch the 8:45 ferry. Getting on board couldn’t

be simpler. If you haven’t already pre-booked, you can just

drive up to the barrier and pay as you board.

The journey takes a couple of hours, and there are two res-

taurants on board, as well as a kids’ games room and a

TV area. The views along the way are fine, and the route

sails past Vesborg Lighthouse on the southern coast before

you arrive at the port of Kolby Kås. Immediately when you

disembark, you are confronted with the sight of dozens of

purple bicycles. It’s simple to hire one, and then you’re off

around the island in an ecological manner.

Which brings me to why Samsø is famous. In 1997, Sam-

singers decided that they wanted to create the first envi-

ronmentally sustainable inhabited island in the world, be-

coming totally self-sufficient in energy. A good deal of hard

work later, they have achieved that goal, and the island

is now carbon-negative – this means they actually export

more energy than they use. Among the sandal-footed tour-

ists on the ferry, you might also see visiting delegations

from places as far afield as Japan or Brazil, arriving on fact-

finding missions to learn how this small island managed to

travel so far down the road to sustainability.

Samsø might be tranquil these days, but it was exactly

the opposite in Norse mythology. Some of the old sagas

identify Samsø as the place where the god Odin learned

Norse sorcery, and it was also the site of a legendary battle

where the Swedish warrior Hjalmar fought the 12 sons of

a beserker called Angrim. But things seem to have quieted

down quite a bit since then, and sitting on the quay watch-

ing the fishing boats come in at Ballen, the liveliest thing

you’re likely to see are a few kitesurfers taking advantage

of the breeze.

In terms of geography, Samsø is long and thin, with the

northern section joined to the southern by only a slender

spit of land. Nowhere on the island are you more than

3.5 kilometres from the sea. The main town is Tranebjerg,

which has the most shops as well as banks and a few res-

taurants. It’s here that you can find the informative Okø-

museum (Eco-museum), which will give you an overview of

Samsø through the ages as well as entry NEXT WEEK: FANØ NEXT WEEK: FANØ NEXT WEEK: FANØ

Samsø

5

WATER – A WORLD OF ADVENTUREA bone-dry ride through the wet element, this exhibition al-

lows you to fight with the power of the sea. See if you can

manage to save someone who has fallen overboard from

a ship. The 850 sq m exhibition features over 50 thrilling

activities and fascinating experiments with water.

ExperimentariumTuborg Havnevej 7, Hellerupexperimentarium.dk

BALANCE AND METABOLISMWhat do you think about your body? Using objects and im-

ages from the unique collections at the Medical Museion,

the new Balance and Metabolism exhibit showcases two

different understandings of the body in the history of medi-

cine. The exhibition focuses on the therapies that arise from

these different theories of the body – from emetics and

bloodletting bowls to insulin injectors and hormone treat-

ments – and the conception of the body that resulted in

their development.

Medical MuseionBredgade 62, Copenhagen Kmuseion.ku.dk

LEJRE – LAND OF LEGENDSOver 10,000 years of Danish history is retold at Sagnlandet

Lejre in a uniquely interactive show that involves the entire

family. Experience how families lived – or even try to live as

a family – in the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Viking era and

the 1800s. Or watch craftsmen labour in period workshops,

and Danish breeds of farm animals roam their pastures. For

those more into nature than history, Lejre also offers a roll-

ing landscape of forests, ponds and meadows.

Sagnlandet LejreSlangealleen 2, Lejresagnlandet.dk

For Families Events

Exhibitions

German world images 1890-1930Rare works from the Na-

tional Gallery’s permanent

collection tell the story of

one of the most turbulent

periods in the history of Ger-

man art. Through the works

of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul

Klee and Emil Nolde, the

exhibit depicts the German

modernists’ quest to identify

the national identity.

The National GallerySølvgade 48-50Copenhagen Ksmk.dk

My name is Jørgen LethImpassioned, intellectual, a

lover of cycling and an artist

fascinated by life’s richness

and the body’s beauty,

Jørgen Leth has long been a

favourite among the cultural

elite. Now in his seventies,

he has attained cult status

among a younger genera-

tion. His artistic focus ranges

from the close at hand to

the worldly, and from the

mythic to the basic tenets of

daily life. Experience it all at

Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand.

Kunstforeningen Gl. StrandGammel Strand 48Copenhagen Kglstrand.dk

Zarah Voigt // Jean VoigtElegant Sophienholm opens

its doors for a spectacular

exhibition of the works

of jewellery maker Zarah

Voight and her father Jean

Voigt. Discover their strange

and beautiful universe of

silver, black and violet.

SophienholmNybrovej 401Kgs. Lyngbysophienholm.dk

PilgrimEsrum Abby presents

two emotionally moving

photo exhibits that focus on

pilgrimages. These special

journeys trace their roots to

ancient times, and are used

by many religions as a either

a trek from one point on the

map to another, or as a spir-

itual voyage that explores

the soul through inner reflec-

tion and an examination of

conscience.

Esrum Kloster & MøllegaardKlostergade 11Græstedesrum.dk

Flaming textiles from UzbekistanExperience a world of colour

and pattern as the David

Collection presents it newly

arranged collection of Uz-

bekistani ikat fabrics, which

are normally not on display.

Ikat fabrics are created using

a particularly complicated

weaving method that is em-

ployed in only in a few parts

of the world. In Uzbekistan,

where it has been practiced

for centuries, the method

has been nicknamed ‘flaming

yarn’.

David Collection Kronprinsessegade 30Copenhgen Kdavidssamling.dk


Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum Circus Museum

www.cirkusmuseum.dk

Circus W

orksh

op

Every Sunday in

July

11-12.30

Hovedporten 6 ● Hvidovre ● Sun-Thursday 11-15

The

ON LOANMasterpieces

from Skagens Museum

4 May - 3 September 2012

www.hirschsprung.dkOpen daily 11 AM - 5 PM Closed Mondays

COPENHAGEN JAZZ FESTIVAL AT CHARLOTTENBORG

Once again this year, the Charlottenborg art gallery will

host a series of Copenhagen Jazz Festival concerts. Ex-

perience music performed outdoors at one of the city’s

largest and most beautiful spaces for contemporary art.

June 11 and 12. More information available at jazz.dk.

Kunsthallen CharlottenborgNyhavn 2, Copenhagen Kkunsthalcharlottenborg.dk

GUIDED TOURS AT THE DANISH JEWISH MUSEUM

Get the inside story behind Daniel Libeskind’s design for

the museum housing 400 years of Jewish history in Den-

mark. The tour offers highlights from the museum’s per-

manent collection, titled ‘Space and Spaciousness’. Tours

available Fri Jul 6, Sun Jul 8 and Wed Jul 18 at 14:00.

Danish Jewish MuseumProviantspassagen 6, Copenhagen K

jewmus.dk

VISIT A VICTORIAN HOME

The Victorian Home is located just a few steps from the

National Museum. The flat, which was once home to the

merchant Rudolph Christensen, appears precisely as it

did between 1890 and 1914. The authentic interiors are

well-preserved. Please sign up at the Information Desk.

The guided tour takes place on Sat Jul 14 at 14:00.

The National MuseumNy Vestergade 10, Copenhagen Knatmus.dk

•

•

•

SCULPTURE • ARCHITECTUR • PAINTINGS

BERTEL THORVALDSENS PLADS 2, COPENHAGEN KOPEN TUESDAY-SUNDAY 10-17 WWW.THORVALDSENSMUSEUM.DK

Your click to Copenhagen-area museums & experiences

WHETHER it’s canal tours, quaint bridges, artists who

cut off their ears or coffee shops, there’s something

for everyone in Amsterdam. Throw on your clogs

and follow the trail to find traces of Amsterdam in Copenha-

gen. Danes have always been keen on the Netherlands. As far

back as 1521, Dutch farmers, at the invite of King Christian II,

settled on the island of Amager.

Life in the Dutch village and its foreign customs attracted

artists such as Julius Exner, Friedlænder and Jens Juel. Their

paintings, as well as the traditional clothing worn by the

settlers, is on display at Amager Museum.

In the Netherlands, they say Amsterdam has two types of

tourists: those who visit the van Gogh Museum first, and those

who visit the red-light district first. But many are also attracted

to the city’s coffee shops. Unlike Amsterdam, though, Copen-

hagen’s cafés don’t sell hash, but at the National Museum,

you can see a hash booth that once served customers in the

Christiania commune.

For those whose tastes lean more towards art and nature,

Nivaagaard presents a collection of landscapes by Dutch

baroque artists Jan van Goyen, Salomon Ruysdael, Aert van

der Neer and Jacob van Ruisdael. Nivaagaard also houses a

number of portraits, including one by Rembrandt. And what’s

more Dutch than a windmill? At the Gilleleje Musuem, the im-

pressive Ramløse Mølle is still operated by a miller and his

apprentice.

Back in Copenhagen, head to Nyhavn and hop on a canal-tour

boat. The trip passes houseboats, elegant bridges and throngs

of bikes, all accompanied by the scent of Dutch waffles. En-

tering the canals of Chrstianshavn, the sight is truly Dutch.

Founded in 1618 by Christian IV, the area was intended as

housing for Dutch immigrants. It was built in the Dutch style in

1618 by Johan Semp. Those interested in modern architecture

can stop along the canal tour at the Danish Architecture Cen-

tre, which shows the latest international trends in architecture.

End the day in the gardens of Kongens Have, in the shadow

of Rosenborg Castle. When the flowers are in bloom during

the spring, the tulips conjure up memories of Dutch fields. And

last on the list of Dutch treats in Copenhagen is a stop at Café

Amsterdam, at Cort Adelers Gade 2, behind the Royal Theatre.

There, the Heineken is always cold.

4


Feeling cooped up in Copenhagen? If you’ve got a touch of wanderlust but can’t get out of the city, why not make

a grand tour of Europe in your hometown? There are plenty of places where you can experience the best of some

of Europe’s great metropolises. This summer, we’ll take you to Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome and Paris – without ever

leaving the Copenhagen area. Next destination: Amsterdam.

By Julie W. Tovgaard

Marina Torp, 37,artist

“The best way to cure your hangover after a night of partying is to head over to Malmö, grab a big brunch somewhere and then go look at art in Malmö Kon-

sthall. That’s such a great way to see art, and Malmö Konstall is an incredible place. When you’re like that,

you’ve got no urgent need to look critically at art – you can just experience it as it is. I’m not such a big fan of minimalism, but when I’m tired and I’m still a little woozy, it’s just what the doctor ordered. It’s also an experience to be able travel to another country to go to a gallery. And besides, Malmö’s a nice place.

“I’m a big fan of Statens Museum for Kunst and the things they do to bring art out of people. The last time I attended one of their alternative events, they had a punk band giving a concert. I think it’s great that they try to at-tract a broader range of people into the national gallery by showing that the term ‘art’ can be applied to a lot of things, including a musical performance, a poetry reading or whatever other crazy idea you can come up with. Art thrives when it’s in our midst. There’s nothing that says that visiting a museum should be something special.

“One place I’d really like to visit is the Cisterns – the Mu-

seum of Modern Glass Art – located at Søndermarken park in Frederiksberg. The museum itself is in one of the city’s old water reservoirs, and I’m told it’s quite magical. I could imagine that it would be a unique place to show art, since it’s underground and there’s no natural light. Nor-mally, location doesn’t mean much to me – inspiration can strike anywhere – but it’s important that we make room for art, and that we open up ourselves to it. That’s why I prefer to go to museums just after they open or just before they close.”

By: Fie Krøyer Dahl

Photo: Sim

on Bøcker M

ørch

Europe in Copenhagen ...My museum where I experience art

Marina Torp, 37,artistMarina Torp, 37,

Your click to Copenhagen-area museums & experiences

3


OPEN ALL DAYS

FREDERIKSBORG CASTLE

ww

w.dn

m.d

k

IslamIc art

EuropEan art

DanIsh art

tuEsDay anD frIDay 13-17wEDnEsDay 10-21thursDay 10-17saturDay anD sunDay 11-17monDay closED

KronprInsEssEGaDE 30DK 1306 copEnhaGEn Kt +45 33 73 49 49www.DavIDmus.DKaDmIssIon frEE

Nik

ol

iNe

liv

AN

de

rse

N “T

he

dA

Nc

e o

f T

he

de

Af

AN

d d

um

b e

ye

”P

ho

To

: Nic

ky

de

silv

A

Rococo-mania is an unconventional museum experience that explores rococo as a phenomenon of the past as well as the present.

CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGNIN DIALOGUE WITH CRAFTS FROM THE 1700’S

ROkOkO-mania

Special exhibition3 May – 23 SepteMber

DeSignMuSeuM DanMark - breDgaDe 68 / 1260 københavn k

VISIT DANISHPALACES AND GARDENSPICK UP A FREE GUIDE AT TOURIST INFORMATIONS, HOTELS OR PALACES OR SEE IT ON SLKE.DK

SLKE.DK

Kulturklik.dk – Your click to museums & experiences. Enjoy summer at Copenhagen area museums.

GAMMEL KONGEVEJ 23 • tEL. 33 31 52 49www.KENNEDYSBAR.COM

tRADItIONAL IRISH PUB 100% IRISH OwNED AND MANAGED

IN tHE HEARt Of COPENHAGEN!

• LIVE SPORtS: fOOtBALL, GAA, RUGBY • POOL • DARtS • tABLE fOOtBALL • SMOKING ALLOwED

3 EXHIBITS ALL SUMMEROPEN TILL 10PM TUESDAY—FRIDAYFREE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS EVERY DAY 11AM—5PM 6/30—8/12

louisiana.dk

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM In THE wORLD

2

A DISTRICT more suitable for feeding the ducks than satisfying your urge to party, Østerbro sits pretty on the edge of

the city centre. With a long-established reputation as Copenhagen’s upper-class neighbourhood, Østerbro is more com-

monly associated with being liveable rather than hip or cool. And being a typically wealthy area, a chance encounter

with a Danish celebrity is not uncommon. But look past the uniform apartment buildings, wide boulevards and quiet residential

streets, and you’ll see that this area has more to offer than simple everyday conveniences. Fælledparken, the large central park,

is a happening hub for sporting events and festivals alike. Situated close by is Parken, a sports stadium that doubles as a stage

for some of the biggest musical acts to visit Copenhagen. Indeed, parks and lakes decorate much of Østerbro, from the green

slopes of Kastellet to the vast expanse of city lakes that form the chosen route for hundreds of joggers every day. With good

cafés and restaurants, health-food shops and organic-produce signs plastered everywhere, it’s clear that many people who live

in this area like to take care of themselves. They relish life in their tranquil neighbourhood and are perfectly happy to seek ac-

tion further afield. After all, the noisier surrounding districts, like Nørrebro and the city centre, are just a short bike ride away.

DO

In an area sometimes dubbed ‘the

Latté District’, it’s surprising how

much there is to do for free in Øs-

terbro. Its lush green parks offer

plenty of opportunities for barbe-

cues and picnics. Kastellet is a par-

ticularly picturesque option set against

a backdrop of green embankments and

windmills. The slopes of the star-shaped citadel are dotted

with cannons, and served a more practical purpose back in the

1600s when they protected Denmark against invading forces. A

stroll down to the adjacent waterfront reveals Copenhagen Har-

bour and one of the city’s biggest (or smallest) tourist attractions

– Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. At Fiskerihavnen, lo-

cated at the tip of Nordhavn, amateur anglers can take out small

fishing boats, and there’s a kiosk for restocking fishing (and beer)

supplies. For active land-dwellers, running around the city lakes

or through Fælledparken is pleasant, while spectators might pre-

fer seeing a concert or football match at the adjoining Parken.

Kastellet. A star-shaped wonderland perfect for a picnic lunch (near Østerport Station)

EAT When the sun is shining, Dag H Café and Restaurant is in the perfect position. Its guests can enjoy alfresco dining, while warming their necks and watching bicy-cles whizz by at the busy Lille Triangel intersection. Italian trattoria-style restau-rant Hos Fischer on Victor Borges Plads, also allows patrons to spill out onto the prome-nade. The square, Bopa Plads, shows off a big playground and a number of quaint eateries like Pixie – a good place for brunch. Another pop-ular, but hidden, brunch joint is Canteen on Nordre Frihavnsgade. From the outside, it looks exactly as its name suggests but inside, it’s far more charming than a cafeteria. Kafferiet, near Kastellet, is a cosy coffee bar – its counter is decorated with a selection of colourful candy for sale. For something more substantial, burger-lovers rave about Halifax at Trianglen, and if you really want to splurge, try Geranium – it was named the world’s 49th best restaurant this year.

Canteen. Book a table by the window so you can watch the world go by during brunch (Nordre Frihavnsgade 52)

SHOP

Though located away from Copenhagen’s main shopping hub,

there are plenty of small boutiques and interesting shops to be

found in Østerbro. For cutting-edge Danish design and fashion,

Normann Copenhagen on Østerbrogade is a must visit – the shop

changes its gorgeous window display almost daily. For women’s

clothing, Berg, also on Østerbrogade, has amazing threads and

shoes bursting with colour, and a short walk further north will

bring you to OZ – to keep the men happy. With so many great

jogging routes in the neighborhood, a host of running stores –

like Marathon Sport, located at the top of the lakes – cater to

active types. Nordre Frihavnsgade is also sparsely dotted with

interesting stores. For pre-loved designer clothes, Greibe og Ku-

mari is the place, a delightful wine shop, Vinobossen, is packed

with boutique brews, fancy tea and liquorice, and the staff at

Odin Fisk will dish up plenty of charisma with their fresh catch.

Normann Copenhagen. This flagship store showcases Danish design at its best (Østerbrogade 70)

AFTER DARK

In a quiet neighbourhood like Østerbro, the selection of watering

holes is limited to a range of intimate bars ideal for kicking off

a night out. Summer is the time to sip cocktails, and there is a

delicious range on offer at Kitjin on Århusgade. There are com-

fortable couches inside, and an old kitchen at the back doubles

as a novel smoking room. The bar also has generous happy-

hour deals, with two-for-one cocktails every evening until 21:00.

Pixie transforms into a bar in the evenings, with outdoor seating

and a courtyard for balmy nights. Fru Heiberg, on Rosenvængets

Allé behind Trianglen, is a French- and Danish-inspired restau-

rant that’s open late from Thursday to Saturday – its cosy sur-

roundings are ideal for a glass of wine. For some Mediterranean

flavour on the same street, try Panzon Vinbar for wine or tapas

– or both.

Kitjn. You’ll love the delicious mojitos served in glass jars (Århusgade 14)

In an area sometimes dubbed ‘the

ticularly picturesque option set against

a backdrop of green embankments and

When the sun is shining, Dag H Café and

intersection. Italian trattoria-style restau-rant Hos Fischer on Victor Borges Plads,

Summer in Denmark: 13-19 July 2012Neighbourhood safari | Østerbro

OURPICK!

OURPICK!

OURPICK!

OURPICK!

Frederiksberg

Vesterbro

Nørrebro

Hellerup

Christianshavn

NEXT WEEK: VESTERBRO NEXT WEEK: VESTERBRO NEXT WEEK: VESTERBRO

More than just a quiet façade

Østerbro

By Elise Beacom

Free access to 70 museumsand attractions in the

entire metropolitan area


SUMMER IN DENMARK

BoBo ØsterbroAmsterdam in Copenhagen

Simply sustainable SamsøDiscover central Jutland

13-19 July 2012


the copenhagen post - july 13-19

Documents

e romanians

foreign workers

e quality

unemployed danes

kind of work

e economy minister

sport e fi

e latest numbers