All Blog Posts Tagged 'english' (148)

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 24 June 2009



Although he is “confident” a deal will be struck in Copenhagen later this year on finding a successor to the Kyoto protocol on tackling climate change, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is only optimistic “to a certain degree” that there will be agreement at the much-awaited summit in December. An up-to-date overview of research relevant to climate change shows that society already has many tools to deal effectively… Continue

By Michel de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 23 June 2009



The right political argument, the right sort of deal and the right sort of campaign to make it happen are vital when preparing policies that will lead to an agreement on mitigating climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) summit in Copenhagen in December, according to Ed Miliband, Britain’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Do we care about the legacy we leave to future… Continue

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 12 June 2009



Iraq has not agreed to received Iraqis who are forced to return, the country’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. Denmark’s integration ministry maintains that its new agreement with Iraq for returning failed asylum-seekers allows the use of force “as the last resort”.



A communiqué issued on Sunday, 7 June, by the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has thrown doubt on the status of the agreement between Denmark… Continue

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 4 June 2009



Russian President Medvedev is coming to Denmark next spring on an official visit to Queen Margrethe.



Russia’s President, Dmitri Medvedev, is coming to Denmark next spring - possibly 1 May - on an official visit to Queen Margrethe.



According to the Ritzau newswire, that was one result of talks yesterday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Per Stig Møller, the Danish Minister of Foreign… Continue

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 2 June 2009



Local government is a crucial partner when countries are to implement the ambitious targets for the reduction of global CO2 emissions that the world's governments are expected to agree on at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmuseen said today.



Addressing the Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit, Rasmussen told the 700… Continue

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Since its inception in Sept. 2008, The Copenhagen Voice has advanced the frontier of news gathering through social media.



CPHVoiceNing is our online news channel focused on local news, politics and the media. The site is built on a social networking and video publishing platform that allows us to scale our coverage and organize our citizen journalists. We use cutting edge…

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Copenhagen, Denmark

January 10th, 2009

By Pamela Juhl



About 300 people gathered in Town Hall today to voice their support for Israel. The general voice of Demo was for Peace - according to Michael Angelo - Press Photographer, who agreed to translate - for CPHVoice - speaker at demo expresses concern for safety of Israelis and Jews - but stressed need for Peace - not war… Continue

January 3rd 2008



COPENHAGEN GAZA DEMO -



March FROM TOWN HALL TO PARLIAMENT

photo: davidaron



About 2,000 people demonstrated at town hall today to express their voice against the violence in Gaza. Danes and Muslims gathered together in protest of the invasion of GAZA.



M80s - 1/4 stick of dynamite - were thrown today by small groups at the demo (about 6 went off in all). According to our reporter,…

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