#9: US troops, Lynetteholmen, movies, flødeboller
And why you shouldn't use NemID at the library.
Hej there,
In case you were wondering, this newsletter is a weekly collection of a few CPH news items that peeked my interest plus a grab-bag of entertainment/culture tidbits for the international Copenhagener.
Enjoy!
Maurice
US troops on Danish soil?
DK and the US have kicked off negotiations on a new defense co-operation, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced Thursday. “We are pleased that the United States has reached out to Denmark with a proposal for bilateral defense cooperation.” The deal, which has “nothing to do with the current tensions between Russia and Ukraine, could encompass troops and military equipment on Danish soil, the PM said. The whole thing’s not all too surprising. While I was reporting a story for a German paper on the spy scandal last year (in a nutshell, DK gave US intelligence agencies access to its undersea cables in order to spy on pretty much every European leader, including Angela Merkel), experts explained to me how extremely dependent Copenhagen has been on America for defence and security since the Second World War. Thomas Wegener Friis, director of the Centre for Cold War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, put it to me this way: “We have an advantage from being on good terms with the Americans. There is added value for us, and this added value was apparently more tempting than the cost.”
Keylogger sentenced
It’s probably not a great idea to use your NemID on public library computers. A court in Aarhus has sentenced a man a 28-year-old man to eight years in prison for “keylogging” in order to steal library users’ NemID info. Nuur Mohammed Warsame, the alleged leader of a small gang of scammers, was found guilty of fraud or attempted fraud to the tune of 47 million kroner, reports DR.