Temperatures could hit 20C this week, more government talks today and roads reopen after last week’s train crash. Here’s Denmark’s news on Monday.
Temperatures could hit 20C this week
The sunny weather last week gave us a first real taste of spring in Denmark and it looks like things this week will be even better.
Temperatures are expected to rise throughout the week and it looks like you can safely leave your raincoat at home, according to Kasper Bonde Niebe, on-duty meteorologist at Danish weather agency DMI.
“We’re heading into a really beautiful week, with sun and lovely spring weather,” he told the Ritzau news wire. “It’s going to feel like spring has finally sprung.”
Temperatures are expected to rise from around 10-14 degrees on Monday to as much as 20 degrees in some areas on Friday. Unfortunately, the weekend might not be as nice.
“There are fronts coming in over the weekend which will bring a bit of rain and cloudier, cooler weather,” he said. “So you should enjoy the nice weather throughout the week.”
Danish vocabulary: a super nice week ‒ a really beautiful week
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PM Mette Frederiksen to hold more government talks on Monday
Government negotiations are still ongoing after Denmark’s election on March 24th, with more government talks set to take place today, according to a short press statement from the Social Democrats.
Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen, who is also acting as interim prime minister, was nominated to lead negotiations following the election.
The party did not provide details on when negotiations are set to take place today, which parties are invited or which topics are on the agenda.
Frederiksen first attempted to form a centre-left government, although the unaligned Moderates who hold a crucial 14 seats and therefore play a key kingmaker role, said that they are not interested in forming a government with the support of the left-wing Red-Green Alliance.
Instead, the Moderates want Frederiksen to form a government further to the right, with the Conservatives and Liberals. The two right-wing parties have so far rejected this.
Frederiksen is currently negotiating primarily with the Green Left, the Social Liberals and the Moderates, with the support of the Alternative and the Red-Green Alliance.
Last time around it took six weeks to form a government, and there is no deadline.
Danish vocabulary: to form (government, majority) ‒ two form (a government, a majority)
Danish diabetes diagnoses reach new record
The number of people in Denmark being diagnosed with diabetes has reached a new record, with 78 people receiving a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes each day in 2025, on average.
That’s a new record, according to Denmark’s Diabetes Society.
In total, 384,600 people in Denmark have diabetes, with a minority of those having Type 1 diabetes.
The rise is, according to society, partly due to the fact that the number of elderly people in Denmark is rising, and that more people with diabetes are living for longer.
Despite this, the society’s administrative director Claus Richter said that the rise should be taken seriously.
“Diabetes is a life-changing chronic illness which can cause serious and debilitating complications, which can cause huge, permanent damage to the eyes, the kidneys and the heart ‒ and which can be fatal,” he said.
“Unfortunately, these numbers show that we are not heading in the right direction, rather the opposite.”
The number of cases differs significantly depending on the region. Only around 4-6 percent of people in the larger regions (Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg) have diabetes, while in Ishøj, Brøndby, Lolland and Odsherred this is as high as ten percent.
Danish vocabulary: diabetes ‒ diabetes, although you may also see the term diabetes, literally ‘sugar sickness’ used as well
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Roads reopened after Thursday’s train accident
A major train accident on Thursday on the Gribskov line in northern Zealand had closed three roads in the area ‒ Kildeportevej, Gadeledsvej and Helsingevej. These have now reopened to traffic, according to on-duty police officer Henrik Thelin, from North Zealand Police.
“We’ve spoken to the head of infrastructure for the local line, who had discussed within their organization that the closures no longer made sense,” he said.
“We called the Road Directorate at 21:54 and asked them to remove the cordon.”
The accident, where two trains crashed head-on, took place where a road crosses the train line. A total of 37 passengers were on board, and 17 were hospitalized, including both train drivers. On Thursday, five of the casualties were in critical condition. All of them are no longer considered to have life-threatening injuries.
It is not yet clear what caused the accident, although Denmark’s accident investigation authority, The accident commissionis investigating.
Danish vocabulary: blocked off ‒ closed off, the blockade ‒ the cordon/closed off area
