Trump promises to ‘make Greenland rich’ on eve of elections

US President Donald Trump has promised to invest billions of dollars in Greenland and make the Island nation “rich”, with only a day to go before elections are held on Tuesday. 

“We will continue to KEEP YOU SAFE, as we have since World War II,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “We are ready to INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to create new jobs and MAKE YOU RICH – and, if you so choose, we welcome you to be a part of the Greatest Nation anywhere in the World, the United States of America!” 

He also made a belated attempt to counter the impression he had been trying to decide Greenland’s future over the heads of the people, writing that “the United States strongly supports the right of the Greenlandic people to determine their own future”.

After Trump’s Greenland’s prime minister, Múte B. Egede, said he did not think that Trump has treated the country with respect.

“We deserve to be treated with respect, and I don’t think that the US president has done that lately since he took office,” he told Danish broadcaster DR in an interview. 

Danish vocabulary:  att blive behandlet med respekt – to be treated with respect

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Denmark’s oldest person celebrates 111th birthday

Kirsten Schwalbe, from the town of Struer in central Jutland, celebrated her 111th birthday on Monday, confirming her position as Denmark’s oldest person. 

Schwalbe was offered a place in a nursing home last year, but she turned it down, she told the magazine Alt For Damerne in an interview. At least one of her own children is already living in an elderly person’s home.  

“I told my children, who asked ‘Why?’, and when I said it was for their sake – to make it easier for them, they said they didn’t want to hear about it,” she said. 

Schwalbe puts her long life down to her genes, saying that four of her siblings had also lived to be over 100 years old.

Danish vocabulary: plejehjemsplads – a place in an old person’s home

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Flights from Copenhagen cancelled due to German strike

At least 15 flights from Copenhagen Airport were cancelled on Monday morning as a result of strikes launched at eleven airports in Germany from midnight. 

Flights have been cancelled to Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt, among other destinations.

The first strike was announced at Hamburg, with no prior warning given to airport management.

A spokesperson for the Verdi union explaining on Sunday that a decision had been taken to mount the strike as a surprise to maximise the impact and so force the airports to the negotiating table. 

Strikes are also taking place at airports in Stuttgart, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hannover, Bremen, Berlin and Leipzig. 

Danish vocabulary: uden varsel – without notice

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Employment among non-Western immigrants at record high 

The employment rate for non-Western immigrants in Denmark is now at a record high, with 52.3 percent in jobs in 2024, up from 36.1 percent in 2015, a new analysis from SMV Danmark, the lobby group for small and medium-sized companies, has found. 

The so-called ’employment gap’ between people of Danish origin and non-Western immigrants, meanwhile, has fallen to a record low of 11.4 percentage points.

“We are on the right track in getting non-Western immigrants into work. We are seeing a significant increase in the employment rate, which is due to both better integration and changes in the composition of immigrants coming to Denmark,” wrote Thomas Gress, senior economist at SMV Danmark, in a press release. 

Danish vocabulary: beskæftigelsen – employment