Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Friday
Aarhus city budget to tackle opioid addiction, police make mistakes on speeding fines and immigration agency puts reminder about Brexit-related deadline on website. Here’s the news from Denmark on Friday.
Aarhus budget sets aside large amount for opioid addiction treatment
The new Aarhus city budget will provide an amount “in the millions” for treatment of people battling opioid addiction, Aarhus Municipality said in a statement, citing a growing number of addiction problems among young people in the city.
“The money will first and foremost go to treatment of addiction. We are unfortunately seeing an increasing number of young people sliding into addiction. They need help to come out of it,” city mayor Jacob Bundsgaard said in the statement.
Some 29 of the city’s 31 elected councillors voted for the budget, which sets aside a total of 30 million kroner for social spending and 50 million for climate initiatives. Some 5 million kroner of the social budget will meanwhile be spent helping homeless people back into housing.
Vocabulary: at ryge ud i noget – to get into a (bad) situation
Police issued 70,000 incorrect speeding fines
As many as 70,000 speeding fines may have been incorrectly issued by police over the last eight years, the National Police (Rigspolitiet) said in a statement yesterday.
The erroneous fines were given to the owners of cars which were recorded exceeding the speed limit by 30 percent at automatic speed checks. That is instead of sending the fine to the driver – who was not necessarily the owner of the car in the cases in question.
Car owners who may have been fined incorrectly do not need to do anything yet, police said.
“We need to get the legal clarification sorted, and then we will find the best way to resolve cases,” the head of unit at the Police Administrative Centre, Jeppe James, said in the statement.
Vocabulary: fartbøde – speeding fine
MP leaves Alternative party after dispute with colleagues
Theresa Scavenius, the MP who was ousted from the Alternative party’s parliamentary group following an internal dispute over working relations, has now left the party altogether and will continue in parliament as an independent.
The decision means Alternative’s total number of seats drops from six to five.
“I have today left Alternative, as I can’t see any other option based on all this. I’m determined to continue my parliamentary opposition work, whereby I can control and criticise the government’s politics,” Scavenius wrote on Facebook.
One of the disagreements between Scavenius and her colleagues related to their position on climate, she wrote.
“I wanted to confront the other politicians with [their] bluff and political theatre, while the others wanted to be good friends, have ‘hygge’ and drink coffee with Mette [Frederiksen, prime minister, ed.],” she said on the evening TV show Go’ aften live earlier this week.
Vocabulary: at melde sig ud – to withdraw an entry a membership
Immigration agency in reminder over extended Brexit deadline
The Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), which is responsible for processing residence permit cases, has reminded British citizens covered by the Withdrawal Agreement that they must apply to extend their residency rights by the end of the year, if they did not do so before the original deadline in 2021.
“British citizens and their family members who do not already hold a residence document in Denmark under the Withdrawal Agreement must submit an application – SIRI is not going to send out individual information letters,” the agency said in a statement on its website.
People who have already extended their residence in Denmark under the Withdrawal Agreement and received a residence card should not apply again. In most cases this will have happened in 2021, but a significant number missed the original process after they did not receive intended information letters from SIRI.
READ ALSO: 'We will not send letters': Danish immigration agency in reminder over extended Brexit deadline
Vocabulary: opholdstilladelse – residency permit
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Aarhus budget sets aside large amount for opioid addiction treatment
The new Aarhus city budget will provide an amount “in the millions” for treatment of people battling opioid addiction, Aarhus Municipality said in a statement, citing a growing number of addiction problems among young people in the city.
“The money will first and foremost go to treatment of addiction. We are unfortunately seeing an increasing number of young people sliding into addiction. They need help to come out of it,” city mayor Jacob Bundsgaard said in the statement.
Some 29 of the city’s 31 elected councillors voted for the budget, which sets aside a total of 30 million kroner for social spending and 50 million for climate initiatives. Some 5 million kroner of the social budget will meanwhile be spent helping homeless people back into housing.
Vocabulary: at ryge ud i noget – to get into a (bad) situation
Police issued 70,000 incorrect speeding fines
As many as 70,000 speeding fines may have been incorrectly issued by police over the last eight years, the National Police (Rigspolitiet) said in a statement yesterday.
The erroneous fines were given to the owners of cars which were recorded exceeding the speed limit by 30 percent at automatic speed checks. That is instead of sending the fine to the driver – who was not necessarily the owner of the car in the cases in question.
Car owners who may have been fined incorrectly do not need to do anything yet, police said.
“We need to get the legal clarification sorted, and then we will find the best way to resolve cases,” the head of unit at the Police Administrative Centre, Jeppe James, said in the statement.
Vocabulary: fartbøde – speeding fine
MP leaves Alternative party after dispute with colleagues
Theresa Scavenius, the MP who was ousted from the Alternative party’s parliamentary group following an internal dispute over working relations, has now left the party altogether and will continue in parliament as an independent.
The decision means Alternative’s total number of seats drops from six to five.
“I have today left Alternative, as I can’t see any other option based on all this. I’m determined to continue my parliamentary opposition work, whereby I can control and criticise the government’s politics,” Scavenius wrote on Facebook.
One of the disagreements between Scavenius and her colleagues related to their position on climate, she wrote.
“I wanted to confront the other politicians with [their] bluff and political theatre, while the others wanted to be good friends, have ‘hygge’ and drink coffee with Mette [Frederiksen, prime minister, ed.],” she said on the evening TV show Go’ aften live earlier this week.
Vocabulary: at melde sig ud – to withdraw an entry a membership
Immigration agency in reminder over extended Brexit deadline
The Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), which is responsible for processing residence permit cases, has reminded British citizens covered by the Withdrawal Agreement that they must apply to extend their residency rights by the end of the year, if they did not do so before the original deadline in 2021.
“British citizens and their family members who do not already hold a residence document in Denmark under the Withdrawal Agreement must submit an application – SIRI is not going to send out individual information letters,” the agency said in a statement on its website.
People who have already extended their residence in Denmark under the Withdrawal Agreement and received a residence card should not apply again. In most cases this will have happened in 2021, but a significant number missed the original process after they did not receive intended information letters from SIRI.
READ ALSO: 'We will not send letters': Danish immigration agency in reminder over extended Brexit deadline
Vocabulary: opholdstilladelse – residency permit
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