The Ministry of Justice proposed to re-introduce a ban on raising other countries’ flags (with the exception of Nordics and German) on flagpoles. If the law passes, it will be in effect in January 2025.
All parliamentary parties agreed to introduce 12 new measures against antisemitism. The police get new powers to temporarily increase the penalty for hate crimes on a national level (in the case of an international event that can lead to an increase in hate crimes) or in a specific area of Denmark.
The government, together with Red Barnet (Save the Children), Børns Vilkår and Dansk Ungdoms Fællesråd (Danish Youth Council) created an alliance against social media giants. Among the objectives, they want an European-wide ban on profiling (targeted content towards children) and to regulate algorithms to limit harmful content.
The Minister of Business is looking for a way to ban influencer advertisements for unhealthy food. However, there is significant resistance to the idea from the Association for Influencers and Bloggers, and food organizations.
DF (Nationalist Conservative) withdraws from the agreement made in 2019 that Denmark must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030. Why? They assert that climate policy has become “too crazy” after the climate tax on agriculture.
DD (Nationalist Populists) warns that the climate tax on agriculture will cost 2,100 jobs in agriculture. However, the farmer interest associations say that if farmers upgrade their farms to be more green, they can avoid tax and most job losses. Plus, the afforestation effort could lead to thousands of new jobs.
There is an identity crisis within Socialdemokratiet (Social Democrats) since the across-the-middle center government was formed with Venstre (Liberals) and Moderaterne (Social Liberals). The traditional Social Democrat voters cannot see themselves in a party that now supports lower taxes and welfare spending cuts, and have moved by the thousands to SF (Socialists).
