Europe | Denmark | Leadership

Mette Frederiksen: The likely future prime minister of Denmark

Mette Frederiksen, embodies a new Danish Social Democratic model, with a new-found focus on restricting immigration while championing the welfare state. Frederiksen "has workers' blood in her veins, is a fourth generation Social Democrat ... and spent years preparing to take over the leadership (in 2015) of the party she knows so well," daily Politiken wrote on Saturday. Having made her debut in parliament at the age of 24, she served as employment minister and justice minister before taking the reins of Denmark's largest political party. She succeeded Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the coun

Europe | Denmark | Science

WiFi Experiment Done By Five 9th Grade Girls Got Serious International Attention. THIS Is Why…

Source: Outside the Box

Researchers from England, Holland and Sweden have shown great interest in the experiment done by 5 girls from northern Jutland in 9th grade. They did an experiment for a biology test, so brilliant, that it has attracted international attention among acknowledged biologists and radiation experts. The girls got really surprised by the sudden attention from all around the world. “It has been such a rollercoaster ride. I still cannot believe it”, says Lea Nielsen, one of the girls. “It’s totally overwhelming and exciting. It’s just not something you experience every day”. a

Europe | Denmark | Religion

Denmark is opening its first female-led mosque

Source: The Telegraph

Mosques are “male-dominated and patriarchal places, where a man is at the speaking platform, a man leads prayer, a man is in focus and dominant”, says Sherin Khankan, an academic and one of four female imams in Denmark. It is for this reason that she has set up Copenhagen’s first female-led mosque, a “feminist project” designed to facilitate worship “on women’s terms.” Having come up with the idea more than a year ago, Khankan – who has a Muslim Syrian father and a Christian Finnish mother – is determined to broaden Islam’s appeal to her fellow countrywomen. “I have

Europe | Denmark | Activism

Save the Children appoints former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Source: Third Force News

Save the Children International has announced former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is to be its new chief executive. Thorning-Schmidt, who was Denmark’s first female prime minister and leader of the Social Democrats, replaces Jasmine Whitbread as head of the umbrella organisation for the Save the Children movement. She will take up her position on 4 April, and will be based at Save the Children International’s headquarters in London.

Europe | Denmark | Leadership

Speaker to Danish MPs: Put away your phones!

Source: The Local

Pia Kjærsgaard, the Danish People’s Party icon who assumed the powerful position of speaker of parliament following June’s elections, says Danish MPs are too busy posting to Facebook and Twitter when they should be paying attention to what’s being said in Christiansborg. “It is completely reprehensible that people were sitting there on [parliament’s] opening day and tweeting,” Kjærsgaard told BT. “Respect for parliament’s lectern needs to come back. It is the Kingdom [of Denmark’s] most distinguished lectern. Everything said here is written down in minutes and saved

Europe | Denmark | Health

Ovarian Tissue Transplants Help Women Have Children After Cancer, Study Shows

Source: Time

An experimental procedure in which women who survive cancer receive transplants of their own ovarian tissue has helped some women have babies, a new study shows. The study is the largest to be done on this procedure so far. The Denmark study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, focused on women who had one ovary removed and frozen when they found out that they had cancer. After receiving treatment and recovering from cancer, doctors transplanted the preserved ovarian tissue onto the women’s remaining ovary, the Associated Press reports. The study looked at 41 women with cancer

Europe | Denmark | Politics

Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt Calls General Election

Source: International Business Times

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt officially began Denmark’s election cycle on Wednesday at a press conference by calling the general election for June 18. Thorning-Schmidt spoke about her center-left administration’s accomplishments, and made a case for her Social Democrat party to win another term in office over the center-right Liberal Party. Her announcement came shortly after the Danish government announced an upward revision of its economic forecast. "Denmark is back on track, we are out of the crisis. ... It's time to ask the Danes if they want to maintain this direct

Europe | Denmark | Society

Retired Danish women ‘happiest of the happy’

Source: The Local

Getting older is not all doom and gloom, at least not if you’re a woman retiring in Denmark. A new study shows that retired, Danish women are the happiest people in Europe. The study was carried out by Eurostat, according to Danmarks Radio. Retired Danish women reported a “happiness score” of 8.5 out of 10, according to The Economist. It may be surprising that it is the older generation and not the youth that is the happiest. But there is a reason for this, according to Christian Bjørnskov, professor of national economy and a researcher specialising in happiness at Aarhus Universi