The Local.dk | 29. Dec, 2017 | 2017 in review: this year’s major news stories in Denmark | .. POLITICS - Tax and immigration were key topics in Danish politics in 2017, a year in which municipal elections resulted in a boost for the opposition Social Democrats, though their policies were often indistinguishable from their colleagues on the other side of the aisle | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - Denmark was not immune from things going on in the outside world. In January, thousands of women joined a ‘sister march’ in Copenhagen in support of the women’s march in Washington, D.C. after the inauguration of Donald Trump | CRIME - Copenhagen has had a difficult year, with organised crime-related shootings a regular occurrence in the Danish capital since the beginning of the summer | IMMIGRATION - Two years after the flow of refugees to Europe peaked, border control is still in place, now the task of soldiers rather than police officers. Immigration remains a consistently difficult and controversial subject | SOCIETY - A novel and admirable way of dealing with online hate speech emerged from Denmark in July. Özlem Cekic, a Danish former MP born in Turkey, visited a man who sent her xenophobic hate mail as a part of her ‘dialogue coffee’ initiative | SPORT - At the UEFA 2017 Women’s European Championships in the Netherlands, the national side went on a thrilling run to the final, where they were eventually beaten by the hosts | THE ENVIRONMENT - In February, Dong, now known as Ørsted, the formerly state-owned energy provider, announced its target of ending coal use by 2023. Later in the year, the government reintroduced its own target for the country's entire electricity supply to be coal free by 2030 .. |
