2024-08-03 10:09:50
Organizations want a ban on energy drinks for children
While the health authorities have found out success in using young mystery shoppers to target stores that sell alcohol to underage customersorganizations from different sectors say they want a different type of drink to also be inaccessible to young people.
Energy drinks – the types that come in big cans, that are shiny and popular in the game culture – have been brought into focus by health and consumer groups, who want Denmark to follow countries including Norway, Poland, Estonia and Latvia ban the sale of alcohol to under-16s.
Excessive consumption of drinks in one way can lead to symptoms such as headaches and palpitations and finally stress and anxiety, including in young people according to a medical expert who spoke to the broadcaster. DR.
Denmark’s food authority Fødevarestyrelsen previously recommended against children drinking alcohol but nothing could be enforced without changing the law. So what does the government say?
Well, that’s not clear at the moment. Although the health minister, Sophie Løhde, has already expressed a desire to follow Norway’s decisions on the issue, she is currently on vacation and therefore DR is unable to hold her this week.
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Taking in Greenland snowballs into a growing diplomatic dilemma
Two weeks ago, anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was arrested in Greenland under an international arrest warrant.
You could be forgiven for thinking this seems to have limited relevance from a Danish point of view, but it has the potential to cause a diplomatic misstep.
READ ALSO: Anti-whaling activist arrested by Denmark has ‘no regrets’
Watson, a 73-year-old American-Canadian who is the founder of the shepherd organization Sea Shepherd and a former executive member of Greenpeace, was arrested on July 21st in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, over a 2010 dispute with ships Japanese whaling water.
Denmark has since receive an official renewal request from Japanone of only three countries in the world to allow commercial whaling along with Iceland and Norway.
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However, the office of French President Emmanuel Macron has asked the Danish authorities not to release Watson, who has lived in France for the past year, while two petitions in France also urged Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen not to release Watson out, who is well supported for his environmental efforts.
In the latest development, some 73 different politicians, including MEPs from 10 different countries including France, Finland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have sent a letter also asking Frederiksen not to accept Watson was forced to leave. to Japan.
French MEP Emma Foreau told broadcaster TV2 that the arrest represented “a growing trend of repression and criminalization of environmental activists worldwide”.
It is currently unclear what Denmark will decide to do. The Ministry of Justice told the AFP news agency on Thursday that it will send the case to the Greenland Police, “unless the current ministry finds grounds to reject the extradition request already”.
If the case is sent to Greenland police, they will investigate “whether there is a basis for extradition”, including whether it is in accordance with the extradition law applicable to Greenland, the justice ministry said.
Whatever the outcome, it is unlikely to improve Denmark’s standing in at least one part of the world.
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What is the cost for clear communication in medical consultations?
Media in Denmark this week reported on the results of the University of Copenhagen study into the potential health effects of the law that requires non-Danish speakers to pay for an interpreter in the health service if they have lived here for more more than three years.
If you have lived here for three years and are not fluent in Danish, then you will have to pay if a doctor thinks they need an interpreter to communicate clearly with you.
English speakers are not exempt from this, we found out after hearing at least one case in which a Danish doctor decides they don’t want to speak English with a patient.
About one in four people who spoke to researchers in the study said that translation costs keep them from going to the doctor.
Denmark’s Health Minister Sophie Løhde, when asked about the issue earlier said that she thought it was “reasonable” to have to pay for the translation “if your Danish is so bad that you need” the service “after three years in this. country”.
A senior doctor at a hospital who knows how to help people from abroad has said that “he has not met a single patient who has learned Danish through this program.”
READ ALSO: The Danish translator costs ‘4 in 10’ to go to the doctor
An English resident in Denmark also told The Local that “It’s very disturbing and doesn’t instill in us any desire to ‘integrate’ at all.”
They say: “Language barriers are used as a ‘big stick’, hospital visits are often difficult to initiate.
Another concern related to imposing interpretation costs on patients is that it may lead them to bring family members or friends with them to interpret — increasing the possibility for inaccuracies and even inaccuracies, the researchers said. .
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