falls were the first issue you noticed distinctively about copenhagen but of course with the number of people coming and wanting to come to copenhagen to stay here as a result the city's success or must be quite a tension between not being able to build in the comedy to the growing number of people well but i think that most people they prefer copenhagen like this because we're building new fantastic areas in copenhagen with new very modern buildings i think a lot of people they would actually not like to live in the old city because you have all the past you have all the restaurants you have all the people in the old city so the people coming to copenhagen to live here they actually want to stay just. kilometer or two away from the from the center but still be able to go there and enjoy the life there so we're building i don't know really many many many apartments right now for for new copenhagen so that people will conduct a listen to you over the christmas period over this matter.

before i was here or perhaps or not. scott was. attractive there would be as many things to to do visit in terms of the cultural food of the city we're actually trying to we had when i was mayor we had really invented something called the altar of stace boring to stace because tuesdays was just the days where on one day you don't want to go out anyway but tuesdays you actually wanted to do something but not and none of the music venues or the bars of restaurants have anything special to offer so we actually created kind of a fun from from the city so you could get money to give a concert or do something spectacular for the copenhagen is but only on tuesdays we had that for a few years and that actually worked so i think you would you would find copenhagen interesting almost all the time and of course. you don't go to the high end cases

every time you you also have to search for some of the small more invisible interesting places and we have a lot of those luckily we still have a lot of those in copenhagen so it's not all just mainstream and nice and things that you could see in london or new york but we also have to special copenhagen way of having fun for the special couple he could we over. information i want to stay here for a few more days then you know oh you should definitely go to the old meat packing district in copenhagen we kept it just as it looked when it was the meat packing district longer. well actually we still have to two of the old meat packing companies located there they think it's terrible now i think because there are a lot of people a lot of people dancing and drinking and having fun but we have a lot of fresh ones we have a lot of bars we have a lot of music with the news galleries and all kind of things and during the

summertime we have a big markets where all the farmers from around copenhagen will come and so. dynamic extra balls and stuff like that so so it's a place that is very vibrant especially in the summertime of course as you might notice when it's cold in copenhagen people don't smile as much as they do in the summertime but for the scope of the. whole you know look there should be the attitudes of people in copenhagen there mark you key has been known for its. attitude so this to say don't submit european integration but it doesn't seem to be the question of copenhagen's identity as a european city of the ambiguity people being with the particulars of this pier i think that we see ourselves as european i think we see ourselves as. people that

are interested in meeting people from all over the world what i think that we are not that interested in is the bureaucracy in the european union so i think the skepticism that we have. towards you is probably some of the same as the british some of the british had but for for the copenhagen is and that they it's we're living in europe we're part of europe and we want to invite europe into our homes and our cities but we don't want to be part of the bureaucracy in in the us that that's where the skepticism come from i think. but what will be the attitude of people in copenhagen towards but towards the british process of will grow from the european union is a subject talk to both or is a point of view of the top of the agenda it is something that we talk about in denmark i think we all fear what will happen in the future we'll be keep

a close connection with. the british people and there's a lot of trade although bacon and butter and all that is that can we still be exporting that and we still work a lot of dangerous work in in london for instance what will what will happen but that that close close connection on the other hand i also think most of the things find it a bit. hilarious in a kind of way to see how all these people that been against the european union and want to struggle for the brics it now they are leaving. they're leaving england now because they realize what what they actually voted for and they don't want to be part of that anyway so i think they're looking at it with some fear and skepticism but also. provide also that yes i think so but the terms of the politics of this have been some of the euro skeptics breaks

a few years of the cold and britain said well we once britain goes the other comes as a peculiar got to leave the european bureaucracy is there any chance whatsoever the denmark would join britain in the exit do i don't think so i just saw our prime minister say that that will never happen we will never have this vote in denmark to to leave the for us it's very important to be part of that so i don't think it will be i think that we will have to work in the future to make it better. more slim probably but i i think that that that the. english way of doing things is to stay within the system and try to fix it from the inside instead of just getting out and yell at that everyone who's trying to do good keeping your toys in the prom exactly . i want to assure that most positions are small european nation which seems to be

punching well above its weight about this to us city and there was very impressed with a hundred mass now it is working in all these un agencies is certainly the sample of a small country can use its appeal in this advantage is perhaps a small country because many of these agencies would have difficulty headquarter in washington or more school for that matter but some hope for headquarters in copenhagen is a much more amenable for a whole range of reasons is that example of a small company can position itself to gain the advantages. to be small as opposed to a disadvantage i think it's a very good example and i think that and a lot of the big agencies they're looking towards copenhagen and then also some of the bigger companies they're looking to denmark because we have less bureaucracy we have more slim culture we have we have an almost no corruption and all that and i think that a lot of people see us as someone who actually wants to do good things in the world

that we will try to make an impact that we will try to. show what what could be done out in the world in a better way some also find that really annoying that we come with the danish way of living that they need the danish all that the danish films and all that and say well look at us we're doing so good but i think that we're showing a good example and we're trying to make sure that that people understand that even a small. a small nation can also do a lot of impact and we have things all over the world that. great position is doing a wonderful job one of my favorite and you should definitely took her. up if if you ever get a chance to do that is a woman called capture us and she's the head of an organization called women deliver it's based in new york but they're actually focusing on doing everything they can to make women heard all over the world to make sure that young girls get

their right education that they get a chance to be well educated in all kinds a way that that you don't get to meet discrimination just because you a woman all that and she's having meetings with well all the prime ministers in the world and in the un and all that stuff is that they and she is sitting in new york that so that's an example of an international edition to very much a daily food from to touch to definitely definitely and i'm proud to to know a lot of people like that all the world and of course it's also very important that people actually come to copenhagen or to denmark and all the people working at the u.n. city they are also part of the copenhagen way of living so hopefully when they leave copenhagen they would also be danish or copenhagen or ambassadors to tell what a wonderful city it is to live in so that's an example of really should foods worldwide to the terms of advancing the cause of women for if they can terms of

representation at city level and representation in the national parliament a woman finding a quality in the political process i think of the city council right now it's almost fifty fifty and we have a majority of female leaders of the parties in the city council and some of the bigger parties also in the parliament the second largest party has a woman in front we have the head of the parliament is also a woman so i think that actually in politics the women find it more attractive to east year maybe two to be be in top position but of course. prime minister of denmark but tell me i do this politics of interest because you would have got the impression of you were an avid follower of booker as a did i was born is fantastic and boredom is a good glimpse of what what the paul and is doing and what the politicians and

doing in. p.r. thank you so much for being now what you're paying for here so much. coming up after the break we'll take a look at some of the issues surrounding immigration and high taxation and. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer here i mean you are liz book video at three am in the new bill is that i mean you spilling into the fall the ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure

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accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be preached. to the right to be press to supply them up for free in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the wives in the house. first city hall. welcome back to our special series on ten mark a country ranked as one of the happiest places on the planet but increasingly the challenges of immigration and high taxes are causing some danes to question whether their country can afford to be as generous as it has been in the past others feel that new laws to ban the burka and cuts to welfare have caused the country to edge closer to the right novelis canoe droom or is there a ninety danish commentator and also one of denmark's leading radio stations alex caught up with him to hear his thoughts can grow more author social commentator

many service see the daily society is among the most contented on f. why a certain kind of last. well and of rational note it's probably actually because of biggest problem because of taxes because we have a great equality there's no that huge class differences which doesn't which doesn't call for frustration you know we're quite equally in income and living standards and then we have a whole lot of trust and trust is kind of the glue that keeps society together we do trust each other we have a small country and so you can keep your babies on the street without being afraid that they're being stolen we look each other in the eye when we make deals and we have a whole lot of trust that people won't won't cheat on you so so that would be the rational answer this that's not a huge difference social classes and not huge conflicts and

a lot of trust the most ironic people on earth will be well understood in the medical no not at all we always say the opposite of what we actually mean also because we have very tied we don't have much much space so to get some space you say the opposite and you get some space so we're very ironic and we have very fine sadistic i mean we've got huge taxes bad food so we kind of you know content because of a con help in any way it's like yeah it's raining yeah you know the wind is always against you yeah you know you don't have any money to the state to get all yeah also we might be the most content people on earth but we also the most drinking hot drinking people in europe. so the content of this might steam from that also we were drunk when we on said it could be even if you're happy in the sense of equally miserable. still just to be in denmark has that become true i want you to

challenges to the state of content to it one high taxation is high taxation sustainable in the modern world of all the forces of globalization. and secondly the perceived threat at least of immigration rebalancing daily society list a reason tome of these going to be challenges to the state of the actually i mean we we are very sarcastic about the high taxes but as i said it it keeps from conflict because you can't get anywhere people are quite equal in come and we are quite happy to to give up a huge part of all income for a sense of social security which again is maybe the content nessus depended on that that we feel secure we feel we have trust we have a very very low corruption we have historically we have one of the least corrupt countries in the world which you can distrust so and this is the high taxes yeah

the plague but then again we we buy from that a sense of social security and of course when the state kaante live of that when the state content of the social security and the belief that we will be helped if in need then we have a problem with the taxes because then we don't get anything for our money rather you you can't depend on yourself because you don't have the means anymore you've given them to the state and the state consequence your needs then you have a huge problem and if again the social welfare state is a problem with immigration because for every immigrant we get they have enormous amounts of rights hospital school things that costs a lot of money so many people are going to say well all these high taxes which a taking away from me. which should she cure me my welfare state is now

from each and every immigrant that is being endangered by most economic analysis in this develop an answer to that immigrants tend to be younger highly productive and contribute more to the whole society than the take that's that's what mca and germany say they have the statistics and they say hey you know you're not making children enough and you're going to need hence you're going to need brains so take it from that. and then not we have a general picture that being a menace being somebody who don't contribute but but not integrated don't speak danish they don't have any education they don't contribute to this is they are living off on welfare that's that's such a big thing in denmark that i mean out biggest second biggest party is a nationalist is the danish people spotted yes risen to prominence on an

immigration ticket yanna nationalist did not for the danes just like trump and sort of course tom's mother was an immigrant they could all meet migrant from school yeah. but that is a problem because you see they could they come with criminal statistics they come with the to sticks about out of being being out of work and search so on and so forth and i mean that two hundred fifty thousand immigrants and we have six million people how can they be conceived as a threat to the danish society but even more so how can they be conceived as a threat to danish identity because when when the days over what we're talking about isn't really that they are problem for all the social security and the social welfare state know their problem for our national identity so we're only talking about what is danish and what isn't danish you know the biggest problems here is they won't shake your hand. oh that's a problem we we're making laws that you have to shake we're making laws that you

have to eat the danged pork if you don't eat pok in kindergarten it's a problem it's a problem if you don't have a danish christmas if you're nice to me so with that with that sort of restrictive legislation against. or. is that the sign of a defense of society which feels some people within it feel the need to see all we've got to protect the suspect which we believe is integral today feels danger values in the danish way of living under threat by a minority and it might it might be you know then i was a huge empire and we have very small and get very homesick an exciting we look the same we smell the same we eat the same we say the same if you diverse you will have a problem if you are too funny or too crazy and now it's

a small country so we haven't been used to people having other values having saying no by doing like this or you know so so we're feeling a kind of a strange minute whoa that people get into having different clothes different things and we have this feeling a threat from global coble i say ssion from from immigrants from things we can't control and this is it's like it's seems like a child in puberty you know who hasn't really secure identity and who has to kind of have a huge you know question directed out what to have a stronger feeling of being identical with yourself and your and your partner's it is simply a challenge to the traditional beliefs political split everybody was a social democrat on then. party the world and it could be overrated because when

else we are right when pope was on post won the presidency if you make the governments of italy is challenging in germany but then. got to be second party but there were fifty two who can people get too alarmed. a fifth of the country hunkering down to two old values yes but they have a lot of saying it's kind of they have these deals is that the liberal party wants to say reduce taxes so they said what can we give the right wing party for that the breitling party always wants the same stronger rules against immigration border and so on and so forth and this they're sending out they say find you we don't care it's a minority you can have that if we can't reduce taxes or if we can get our fiscal law find you we get your votes and you can get whatever you want pork or handshakes and who cares you know it seems ridiculous it's seems they can't cope

with differences it seems as if it's kind of misleading public opinion let's let's give them this let's talk about some small irrelevant stuff because we can't deal and cope with the real questions it's seems like smoke but let's get the blast tax issue right with some of the most prosperous country on earth the highest the productivity of many countries we would envy high taxation certainly but great social services public services compared to most countries and regarded news services one of the happiest countries on the planet what an air for you wanting a bit well it just came to you were netting you'll stop fretting about things i think one is that we have faith that i take it away from us they're going to take it away from us and second i think our history might not be you know exactly right . you know humanitarian the u.n.

city and so on and so forth so if you look at our history we are kind of opportunities and we have kind of missions he a first world war we prospered we solo the foodstuffs you just go on having all its great wicket in retirement was newton for us will go again and we got rich on the first world war and the second world war we were happy about the germans until standing grot and then we were caught dead losing who's winning oh oh the u.s. is winning great i mean even when we had poland here when they came into the european country and in copenhagen it was the germans paying for it they paid the polish people some billions cents a get in and but our prime minister was standing there saying so ladies and gentlemen we have a deal when when germany to one million refugees we took thousand we don't even take. refugees it's a lie we're lying to ourselves and maybe we also lying about our happiness and our welfare state because as it is now the welfare state is in in

a state of of slow disintegration we are taking the means from the poorest people those who are really neat and a challenge them into middle class institutions schools and hospitals are fine but people without without education people who really those in need are getting less and less and being more and more controlled losing their freedom that they're not being treated like michael citizens that they contour what they want to travel as they want to choose the work they want that being forced i mean i'm sitting here waiting for the moment when we say the convoked animal if you don't have enough money so maybe our self picture a way that this story would tell us about ourselves might be a lie and we might be waking up and we're afraid of waking up because then we aren't danes and everything isn't that happy and that good as we think it is it is and maybe that's why we feel threatened. so when you're looking for somebody with

a glasses grill you have a custom in vs scotland scottish glade yeah here is my aspire was reversing gus i'm a mad man my first love was george macdonald it's fantasy you know and i just love scottish culture i love scottish literature and i love scottish beer and i love scottish weather it's like the danish just even worse and i love scottish girls of course i went to the isle of skye portree that was the most beautiful red haired freckled girl who took me to a dance in the church and i didn't pull it off i sat waiting there and somebody took her out and dance with her and they're probably happily married now i should have taken it out then saying i would be living in poetry having sheep drinking with the priest and having the most beautiful life with with rain and wind and the sea and it would be a much nicer work can do your last load from sky i can help if the toasting of it

yeah and i was to give you the quickly somebody with a loving cup and go oh oh you know the true whisky macwhich password only your close friends and it particular can do it only scotch whisky of course and if you hear me come get me. so are we any closer to finding that elusive daily felix. the one the subways tell us because one of the most contented places on the planet as we see them not everyone agrees so and so something rotten in the state of deadlock several think really hunky dorey but still the conclusion we can draw is happiness like beauty lies in the eye of the beholder so from tells me that myself and all the show this goodbye from no.

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