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Tough talk over university billions

Talks on the billion-kroner globalisation-fund have ended in a political stand off, with the government now threatening to use the billions with the right wing Danish People's Party. This is after the centre-left Social Democrat and Social Liberal parties slammed the door

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German voice in Europe needed

Former politicians Uffe Ellemann-Jensen and Richard von Weizsäcker discussed the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath

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God doesn’t mind blasphemy, but we do

Religious feelings, bullying, and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Two editors stake out the issues four years after the Mohammed cartoons

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Politics

Students had an orange revolution

Danish top-politicians were present, when thousands of students on Tuesday 6 October, marched towards Christiansborg (the Danish parliament). The University Post was there

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Politics

Ban Ki-moon: What kind of band is that?

Chief of the world, UN Secretary General, at the University of Copenhagen

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Politics

Uproar over library closure

Over 100 researchers now protest against dispersal of the Polar Library. Greenland MP Juliane Henningsen now also involved

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Copenhagen students in power station action

University Post was in the thick of it, when around 200 activists, including U of C students, tried to break in to one of the Copenhagen power plants

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UN secretary-general at University of Copenhagen Saturday

U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, recently dubbed »the world’s most dangerous Korean«, is to be a guest at the University of Copenhagen and address climate change

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Recession can attract the big brains

Global job insecurity, especially in the US, should help to draw talent to Copenhagen. But other European universities are also on the bandwagon

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Quirky music livened up ministers debate

Prorector Lykke Friis was in fine form, dealing out a yellow card warning to a long-winded response

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