It has been a sunny week in Denmark 🙂 Well, if you ignore the whole debacle of Swedish teenagers coming to Denmark as guns for hire and the more-or-less lack of Olympic medals for the national team. We’ve had beautiful days to enjoy coffee in the garden, pick fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, nibble on the blackberries, run to the nearest beach, and let vitamin D supercharge you.
Sunny days are also good for tourism, and can even lead to smart ideas. The Copenhagen pilot program in which tourists can enjoy different attractions for free in exchange for climate-friendly deeds has been a great success and will hopefully inspire the rest of the country. For example, tourists can sail around Copenhagen for free while collecting trash from water. Who knows – maybe all of Europe will follow our example 🙂 Don’t underestimate the impact that millions of tourists can have over a short period of time.
Unfortunately, tourists can also be teenage gang members from Sweden, so the Danish government will increase controls at the Danish-Swedish border. Since April, we have had 25 episodes where Swedish teenagers committed crimes in Denmark. In addition to increased surveillance, the investigative efforts will be strengthened by stationing Danish police in Sweden and Swedish police in Denmark.
Sometimes tourists (and not only) can also be accessories to crime without even knowing. Nature’s green death, the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, infects and kills plants by taking away their ability to absorb water and nutrients. Be careful what you bring in your suitcase back to Denmark! Italy and Mallorca have already lost countless olive and almond trees to the disease. Read more about the campaign #PlantHealth4Life (in English) here.
We end this week’s edition with an invitation to a free online course on “How to spot and react to disinformation and information manipulation?” created by the platform together.eu. Why? Because sometimes critical thinking can literally be life-saving.
Thank you for reading and sharing Last Week in Denmark!
