JAZZ FESTIVAL
FESTIVALS
TAKE YOUR
FREE PAPER
INSIDE
A summer of music festival fun is yours with just the clothes on your back. Who needs a tent when the weather is this good?
40TH ED
ITION
Once again the Danish capital’s streets, clubs and bars will resonate to the sweet sounds of jazz The ional at Intern Guide ts,
18 – 19
hligh t ted hig concer – Selec guide, ations nd venue omme ch rec
INSIDE
and mu more
DANISH NEWS IN ENGLISH CPHPOST.DK VOL 21 ISSUE 09 29 June - 9 August 2018
NEWS Killing our neighbours with whatever comes to hand
4
NEWS
The great train shambles Risk-taking continues on the track and with new tech
REVERED SCIENCE
6
Don’t throw your beer away! BUSINESS
It will get you into FIFA’s bad books, and soon there won’t be any left!
Boom then bust: The irony of modern commerce
CHRISTIAN WENANDE
8 HISTORY
They’ve made us blubber Purpoises again thriving after years of needless slaughter
15 PRINT VERSION ISSN: ONLINE VERSION ISSN:
2446-0184 2446-0192
9 771398 100009
T
HE DANISH football association DBU was fined 127,000 kroner by the world governing body FIFA for poor fan behaviour during Denmark’s 1-1 draw with Australia in Samara last week. According to FIFA, the Danish fans did not adhere to protocol during the match – a number of plastic glasses containing beer were thrown down from the upper stands, hitting Australian fans below. Hard Russian plastic “IT WASN’T malicious,” said Mikkel Hvidsteen, a Danish fan at the game. “When something exciting
happens we like to throw our beers up in the air – unfortunately in this case the beer glasses had a hard plastic bottom.” Valuable commodity PERHAPS the Danes should hold on to their glasses for their next game this Sunday for another reason, as the golden droplets are actually becoming a bit scarce. There is an ongoing shortage of CO2 that is threatening to limit the production of beer and soft drinks this summer – though not so much in Denmark thanks to Carlsberg’s self-sufficient brewery in Fredericia. More than normal THE BREWER intends to brew more beer than normal so more CO2 can be produced in its fermentation tanks. After all, the continent is parched with the World Cup on!
16-17
Mobile pay for kids
Squishies are toxic
A NEW APP launched by MyMonii in collaboration with Nets will enable children over the age of seven to pay for goods using their mobile at 20,000 stores that already accept Dankort on the phone. The MyMonii app, which has existed for some time using ‘Monopoly money’, already has over 45,000 users.
A REPORT from the Environment Ministry and Miljøstyrelsen food agency recommends parents to get rid of all the squishies in their home because most of them are toxic. The colourful soft toy is made from memory foam and has this year become incredibly popular with children aged 5-12. A test of 12 squishies found that all of them gave off unacceptably high levels of toxic chemicals.
Too ill to work – study A THREE-YEAR study of 90,000 unemployed people on sickness benefits in Denmark reveals that some people really are too ill to work. Despite the huge effort and expense exerted to get them into jobs, only a third make it – the same success rate without any municipal schemes, concluded the study’s Danish author Anders Holm, a professor at the University of Western Ontario.
Super summer to continue DENMARK’S amazing summer looks set to continue, not only through July, but into August as well, predicts DMI. Following the warmest May since records began in 1874, and the best June since 1992, drier, sunnier and warmer weather than average isforecast until September – partly due to the Jet Stream being situated further north than normal.
SUMMER CONFERENCE 18 - 20 JULY
18:00 each evening in Kulturstationen Vanløse (next to Vanløse St.) Worship services with international speakers from USA, England, and the Middle East. Come and seek God together with us.
LE ENDE KIRKE
www.levendekirke.com