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[00:00:00] and decide how they should
[00:00:02] the world.
[00:00:05] Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic political association,
[00:00:09] opposes democracy and strives for a society based on
[00:00:13] Islamic law. In Germany and most recently in
[00:00:15] Great Britain, the association has been declared illegal.
[00:00:19] Islam will soon reach all corners of the world. In a number of
[00:00:22] upper secondary schools, Muslim students are already today exposed
[00:00:26] to negative social control. I actually expect that there will be more
[00:00:30] of that kind, says the head of the high schools today. This thing,
[00:00:34] that someone decides who you can party with or if you can
[00:00:38] party, if you are dating someone, or who you talk to and so on. It's
[00:00:41] something we need to spot, and then we need to react to it. Islam gives you
[00:00:45] direction, Islam gives you meaning, why they should interfere, I can't quite understand. Life
[00:00:48] is too short to say Muslims, not Muslims, it doesn't matter what you are, as
[00:00:52] long as you are decent meaning, Islam gives you
[00:00:55] dignity. So I can welcome you, Elias
[00:00:58] Lambarat, you are a representative for Hisbut Tahrir,
[00:01:02] young people have parents, so parents whom they can, with whom they can discuss
[00:01:06] values and frameworks, why should an Islamic association like
[00:01:09] Hizb ut-Tahrir tell young Muslims at a Danish high school what they should and should not
[00:01:13] do, is that not a
[00:01:14] parental responsibility?
[00:01:17] I think it is all our responsibility to react to it, when you have a minister,
[00:01:20] who today, with his reaction also to DR, merely emphasizes the
[00:01:24] huge need for support for the Muslim students
[00:01:27] who, by their own efforts and will, choose to hold on to their
[00:01:31] Islamic values, which the minister in charge calls both dangerous and old-fashioned and
[00:01:34] ancient, and I don't know what terms he uses for it. I don't know if Morten
[00:01:38] Bødskov is half-bad at hearing what he says himself, but if you can't bring your
[00:01:42] convictions and values to the educational institution, then it is actually a
[00:01:45] call for sanctioning or excluding Muslim students based
[00:01:49] solely on their beliefs. Yes, and if we now stick to what it says, then
[00:01:53] we also hear in the clip, why should they interfere, Muslim or
[00:01:56] not Muslim, it doesn't matter, as long as one behaves
[00:02:00] decently. There is personal freedom in Denmark, should you or your supporters
[00:02:04] be moral guardians over whether young Muslims want to go to a party with their
[00:02:08] high school class?
[00:02:11] We have not appointed ourselves guardians of anything, we call and urge
[00:02:15] Muslims to stick to the values they have, and we do so in a context where
[00:02:18] already before the summer holidays, there has been a huge and quite
[00:02:22] heated debate about precisely Muslims and Islamic
[00:02:25] practice at, among other things, youth education institutions, so there is already a
[00:02:29] context where they de facto criminalize ordinary Islamic
[00:02:33] behavior, whether it is the Muslim prayer, whether it is the Islamic
[00:02:36] clothing, or whether it is something else that is common and normal for
[00:02:40] those Muslims who choose to practice their Islam, and there our
[00:02:43] point of view is that they deserve all possible support and backing in that, and
[00:02:47] not to let themselves be intimidated and pressured by politicians or rectors to give up
[00:02:51] what they are convinced of. Now you say ordinary Islamic
[00:02:54] behavior, Hisbut Tahrir, which you are advocating for, fights for a global
[00:02:58] Islamic caliphate based on Sharia law.
[00:03:02] Danish high schools are based on open-mindedness, free thinking and democratic
[00:03:06] education. When you do not support Danish
[00:03:09] democracy, why should you interfere in what happens in
[00:03:12] Danish secular
[00:03:13] educational institutions?
[00:03:18] I thought that when one claimed to support freedom of speech and independent
[00:03:22] thinking, that it was precisely to make room for the exchange of
[00:03:25] thoughts and opinions, but what I hear from the minister and what I hear
[00:03:29] insinuated in your question, is that one is completely free to think and choose, as long as one does not
[00:03:33] choose one's Islamic values, we will resist that, we believe that it
[00:03:36] is worth fighting for, that the Muslim youth and elderly for that
[00:03:40] matter, get the opportunity to hold on to their own set of values and live
[00:03:44] in the way they are convinced of, and then there must be a
[00:03:48] exchange of thoughts in high schools, I think that is only healthy, but it is not us who want
[00:03:51] to shut it down.
[00:03:54] Yes, if Danish democracy cannot be discussed, if secularism cannot be
[00:03:57] discussed, then it is on the other side of this debate that the judges
[00:04:01] have, to the highest degree, arrived. Thank you for sharing your
[00:04:05] opinion
[00:04:05] here.
[00:04:10] For the first time since Ukraine's president came to power,
[00:04:13] Volodymyr Zelenskyy has today been on an official visit to Serbia,
[00:04:16] a country that traditionally has close ties to Russia.
[00:04:19] Serbia has not wanted to impose sanctions against Russia as punishment for the invasion of
[00:04:23] Ukraine in 2022, but recognizes Ukraine's
[00:04:27] national borders.
[00:04:30] which means territorial integrity
[00:04:33] of all member states of the United Nations, which also means
[00:04:36] territorial integrity.
[00:04:39] Ukraine. In addition to the recognition, Zelenskyy also received a
[00:04:43] promise from Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić of
[00:04:46] humanitarian aid. The visit to Serbia is seen by some
[00:04:49] Ukrainians as a slap in the face to Moscow, which considers
[00:04:53] Serbia an ally. But there are no signs that Serbia will go a step further
[00:04:57] and, for example, punish Russia with sanctions, which.
[00:05:21] a lot to gain from this visit. I think it
[00:05:25] seems like a very sensible strategy, he goes into the lion's den
[00:05:28] here in Belgrade, but he also knows that a lot is at stake for
[00:05:32] Serbia, they want to move closer to the EU, they have not joined
[00:05:35] EU sanctions, so this cultivating relations with Ukraine, that is a
[00:05:39] way for Serbia to say, we want to, in a way. we want the EU, we want, in a way,
[00:05:43] the politics you have, so we can hope that, yes, the Serbs can
[00:05:47] hope that they can get closer to the EU, get some concessions from the EU
[00:05:50] side. Now we will meet Jasmine Jos, she is
[00:05:54] from the Philippines and now a maid in Nuuk, because
[00:05:57] in Greenland, there is a shortage of hands for all kinds of jobs, and
[00:06:00] therefore, yes, so there is an opening for labor from all over the world, and from Asia
[00:06:04] it has been pouring
[00:06:05] in.
[00:06:10] When your hotel bed in Nuuk.
[00:06:43] doubled in the last 10 years, I'm so very grateful
[00:06:46] and thankful for everything that I came here. In total, there are now
[00:06:50] 1900 citizens from Asian countries in
[00:06:53] Greenland, I will clean the toilet out of a
[00:06:55] population of just 56,000. Here in
[00:06:58] Greenland, when you go to shops and restaurants, there are many
[00:07:02] Filipinos, there are also many from other places in Asia, for
[00:07:05] example Thailand, it really characterizes the street scene,
[00:07:09] and maybe there are more Filipinos on the way, I wish.
[00:07:16] Four years ago, 31-year-old Jasmin traveled
[00:07:19] to the other side of
[00:07:20] the globe.
[00:07:24] Here to the high
[00:07:25] north.
[00:07:35] A working life with a coveted
[00:07:37] paycheck,
[00:07:39] but also a life of sacrifice and sacrifices. because
[00:07:43] I have kids, you have kids back home? Yeah, sent them back
[00:07:47] home last December 2024, Jasmin's children
[00:07:51] aged 10 and 11 are the
[00:07:53] reason
[00:07:56] she won't stay in Greenland forever, I think
[00:07:58] I will go back home to my place,
[00:08:02] everyone wants to die in the place where they
[00:08:05] born, but it will be a long time before mom comes
[00:08:09] home, maybe 10.
[00:08:22] Kasper, what is the reason that Greenland has such a great need to recruit
[00:08:26] labor from outside?
[00:08:29] That is one of the biggest problems for Greenland's economy, lack of
[00:08:32] labor, the unemployment queue is short, the unemployment rate is lower,
[00:08:36] the workforce is small, there are more elderly people, and there are also quite
[00:08:40] a lot of young people who are completely outside the labor market and are neither in work nor in
[00:08:44] education, that is why Hotel Hans Egede, where I
[00:08:47] visited Jasmine Joses here, uh, that almost half of the
[00:08:51] employees are from the Philippines, there are cafes
[00:08:54] here in Nuuk behind me, that only have
[00:08:57] Asian staff employed, and the employers tell me, we would
[00:09:01] actually like to employ Greenlanders, but they are not there, there is nothing
[00:09:05] unusual in itself in importing labor from outside, you also see
[00:09:09] that in Denmark and a number of European countries, the unusual thing here is... that
[00:09:12] they recruit unskilled labor for all kinds of
[00:09:16] quite low-paid jobs from the other side of the world,
[00:09:19] and it has happened in just a few
[00:09:23] years, so 10 years ago there were 160 Filipinos
[00:09:26] in Greenland, now there are
[00:09:29] 1300, that number is constantly growing, yes, as you say, that number
[00:09:33] is constantly growing, it is a pretty large number, given that Greenland's total
[00:09:36] population is well over 58,
[00:09:39] 57. Is there support for recruiting
[00:09:42] additional labor to Greenland?
[00:09:46] Yes, I experience that, if I take the employers
[00:09:50] first, they say, well, we simply cannot see that this, this need, will
[00:09:53] stop, these are temporary arrangements, which they come on, they get a
[00:09:57] permit for the first two years, then it is extended by one year at a time, but many of them have been here for
[00:10:00] five, eight, ten years, they have had children
[00:10:04] here, they have had children with them here, who have attended primary school here in
[00:10:07] Greenland, and many say, we simply cannot see it, it, it stops, there is
[00:10:11] a need for it, general. Generally, I experience among the Greenlandic population, when I talk to people who
[00:10:15] are not employers, and use this arrangement, that they are positively inclined
[00:10:18] towards foreign labor, it is also something that has a long tradition here
[00:10:22] in Greenland, that people come here to work.
[00:10:27] We are going home again, because from today and in the coming week, thousands will
[00:10:30] traditionally participate in Copenhagen Pride
[00:10:33] Week, but it happens in the shadow of the attack on Berlin Pride just
[00:10:37] two weeks ago, where one person was killed and several
[00:10:40] injured. Here at home, Copenhagen police have therefore, for the same reason,
[00:10:44] security patrols ready at City Hall Square. It
[00:10:48] is clear that when you have a large parade that goes a long way through
[00:10:51] Copenhagen, then we fill more of the picture than we otherwise would. "If you
[00:10:55] had intended to go to Pride before the incident in
[00:10:58] Berlin, then we don't think there is anything that should make you change
[00:11:02] that decision." At the organizer of Copenhagen Pride, there is
[00:11:05] confidence that the police have control over security, so the pride event can
[00:11:08] proceed peacefully. It was
[00:11:11] terrible to receive that message two weeks ago, uh, but
[00:11:15] for me, it also gives a fighting spirit and a spark to how
[00:11:19] important the work is, and I feel that we, I feel
[00:11:23] safe personally, and I... 'I know that the police have done everything they can to
[00:11:27] ensure safety, and
[00:11:29] Camilla Sjøler, you are at precisely City Hall Square, which these
[00:11:33] days has been transformed into Pride Square, has it all started yet?
[00:11:37] It certainly has, as you can hear behind
[00:11:39] me, the
[00:11:42] Eurovision singer from Denmark, Søren Thorbegårlund, has just gone on stage, and
[00:11:46] a lot of people have gathered here at
[00:11:49] City Hall Square, so there's singing and dancing and also
[00:11:52] a few beers being toasted. Some of those who showed up here today are
[00:11:56] you, Lotte Kraw Andersen, you showed up
[00:12:00] here today, but uh, even though we can hear that the party is already in full swing,
[00:12:03] there is also a little extra security this year, some
[00:12:07] extra concrete barriers have been put up and a little extra police, and that was because of what
[00:12:11] happened in Berlin, how much has that affected
[00:12:13] you? It has affected me emotionally
[00:12:17] and uh in terms of fighting spirit,
[00:12:19] but not in terms of showing up today, it has not deterred me at all, it has only made it
[00:12:23] even more important to show up today. I must say. Why has it been more
[00:12:26] important? It proves that there is even more reason for us
[00:12:30] to support each other and fight for this cause. We are simply not done
[00:12:34] with it. Pride week has begun.
[00:12:38] What does Copenhagen Pride actually mean to you? Well,
[00:12:41] it's the best week. I mean, it's my, my Christmas Eve. We
[00:12:45] have to, we have to show that there is room for all of us,
[00:12:48] all, all colors, all types, and we, we just have to be allowed to
[00:12:52] be here all together and be who we are. So I just want to say. Have a good party, you can
[00:13:05] drone incident here at Leipzig Airport, where on Tuesday evening a
[00:13:09] drone with explosives was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane.
[00:13:13] Germany has described the incident as an attempt at a hybrid attack.
[00:13:16] Russia was accused of being behind it, among others by the Ukrainian ambassador
[00:13:20] in the country. The Russian embassy in Germany calls the incident and
[00:13:23] its aftermath a new wave of anti-Russian
[00:13:26] hysteria.
[00:13:29] When festival-goers go home from Smukfest, it often happens by
[00:13:33] taxi, and in connection with the festival in Skanderborg, yes, the Southeast Jutland
[00:13:37] police have charged a total of 38 taxi drivers in a
[00:13:40] control. Most of the cases concern technical faults, but there are also
[00:13:44] more serious ones. One driver is charged with driving with drugs in his
[00:13:47] blood, while another lacked permission to drive a
[00:13:51] taxi. As a taxi driver, but I
[00:13:54] think. 'It's important to have all the papers and
[00:13:57] everything has to be in order, so I think it's
[00:14:00] okay,
[00:14:04] big salute for Colombia's new president, right-wing politician
[00:14:08] Abalado de la Esperalia, whom we see here, a 48-year-old
[00:14:12] lawyer and a Trump supporter, he promises to crack
[00:14:15] down hard on gangs and drug groups, and will also cut deeply
[00:14:18] in public spending, the US has already promised him
[00:14:21] support, Colombia's left wing protests the move.
[00:16:13] Good evening and welcome to TV News. Dear
[00:16:17] young Muslim in high school. After the summer holidays, a new
[00:16:20] chapter begins. Here in a school start, Hizb ut-Tahrir
[00:16:23] encourages Muslim high school students to remember Islamic values. A
[00:16:27] message that meets criticism from both the government and
[00:16:30] high school rectors. They use this to promote
[00:16:34] discord. They use this to promote Islam.
[00:16:37] demands for how our education and the environments in our
[00:16:40] education should be organized, it does not belong anywhere.
[00:16:43] In Greenland, there is a great shortage of labor, and this has caused the number of
[00:16:46] Filipino guest workers to explode.
[00:16:50] And here we see live images from
[00:16:53] City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Copenhagen Pride is about to start, but it
[00:16:56] will be in the shadow of the terrorist attack in Berlin two weeks
[00:17:00] ago.
[00:17:01] On Monday, more than
[00:17:08] 40,000 young people will start a high school education across
[00:17:11] the country. They have had the Islamic association Hizb ut-Tahrir to
[00:17:15] target a campaign at Muslim students with messages about
[00:17:18] carrying the Islamic identity and turning their backs on a Danish
[00:17:22] youth culture, which they call shameless and
[00:17:26] boundless. The Minister for Integration calls
[00:17:28] this message deeply alarming.
[00:17:31] Dear young Muslim in high school. This video is part of a new.
[00:17:35] "your adherence to
[00:17:40] Islam is never a problem. In both a video and an open letter, young Muslims are encouraged to stand
[00:17:44] firm on their Islamic identity when they embark
[00:17:46] on their youth education. I haven't seen that before. Ilham Ali herself went to
[00:17:50] a youth education institution just years ago. I am Muslim and I
[00:17:54] work, study, but my religion, it's something that is private
[00:17:58] to me, it's not when I stand in the street and brag that I'm Muslim, I'm
[00:18:02] Muslim, so that video, I think it's a bit unnecessary.
[00:18:05] made because we
[00:18:07] know who we are directly taken on the task of deciding
[00:18:11] what should happen, how it should happen in the high schools, do not support him. In
[00:18:15] the letter, Hizb ut-Tahrir writes, among other things, that there can be a pressure
[00:18:18] to adapt to a culture, where following one's desires and cultivating
[00:18:22] an often shameless and boundless youth culture
[00:18:25] is presented as normal. The letter has made
[00:18:28] the Minister for Integration angry.
[00:18:32] They don't want Denmark, they want to lock
[00:18:35] young people in traditions and values.
[00:18:39] Danish youth culture is, according to the minister, under
[00:18:42] pressure. Hizb ut-Tahrir stands for everything opposite, and calls for
[00:18:46] remembering one's Islamic values, implying that one should
[00:18:50] stay away from everything that is Danish. Also in the educational institutions,
[00:18:53] they distance themselves from Hizb ut-Tahrir's campaign. Our entire high school culture
[00:18:57] is based on freedom, based on open-mindedness, personal empowerment,
[00:19:00] democratic formation, and we should not have any other values competing with
[00:19:04] them. I certainly think it contradicts the idea that our young people should
[00:19:07] learn to decide for themselves how they should act in
[00:19:11] the world.
[00:19:15] which is an Islamic political association, is against
[00:19:18] democracy and strives for a society based on Islamic
[00:19:22] law. In Germany and most recently in Great Britain, the
[00:19:25] association has been declared illegal. Islam will
[00:19:29] soon reach all corners of the world. In a number of youth education institutions,
[00:19:32] Muslim students are already today exposed to negative
[00:19:36] social control. I actually expect that there may be more of that
[00:19:39] kind, says the head of the high schools today, this thing,
[00:19:43] that someone decides who you can party with, if you can party,
[00:19:47] if you are dating someone or who you talk to and so on, that's something we
[00:19:50] need to spot, and then we need to react to it, Islam gives you direction, Islam
[00:19:54] gives you meaning, why they should interfere, I can't quite understand, life is too short
[00:19:58] to say Muslims, not Muslims, it doesn't matter who you are, as long as you are
[00:20:01] decent, Islam gives you meaning, Islam gives you
[00:20:04] dignity, so I can welcome you,
[00:20:07] Lamberat, you are media representative for Hizb ut-Tahrir.
[00:20:11] Young people have parents, so parents with whom they can, with whom they can discuss
[00:20:14] values and frameworks. Why should an Islamic association like Hizb ut-Tahrir
[00:20:18] tell young Muslims at a Danish high school what they should and shouldn't do?
[00:20:22] Is that not a parental responsibility?
[00:20:26] I believe it is all our collective responsibility to react to this, when you have a minister,
[00:20:29] who today, with his reaction also to DR, merely underscores the immense
[00:20:33] need for support to be shown to the Muslim students, who by their own efforts and
[00:20:37] will choose to uphold their Islamic values, which the
[00:20:40] minister in this area calls both dangerous and old-fashioned and ancient, and I
[00:20:44] don't know what terms he uses for it. I don't know if Morten Bødskov is
[00:20:47] half-deaf to what he himself says, but if you're not allowed to bring your convictions and
[00:20:51] your values to the educational institution, then it is actually a call to
[00:20:55] sanction or exclude Muslim students based solely on their
[00:20:58] beliefs. Yes, and if we stick to what it says, then we also hear in
[00:21:02] the clip, why should they interfere, Muslim or not
[00:21:05] Muslim, it doesn't matter, as long as one behaves decently. There
[00:21:09] is personal freedom in Denmark, should you or your supporters
[00:21:13] be moral guardians over whether young Muslims want to go to a party with their
[00:21:17] high school class?
[00:21:20] "We have not appointed ourselves as guardians of anything, we call and encourage
[00:21:24] Muslims to stand firm on the values they have, and we do so in a context where
[00:21:27] already before the summer holidays, there has been a huge and quite
[00:21:31] heated debate about precisely Muslims and Islamic
[00:21:34] practice at, among other things, youth education institutions, so there is already a
[00:21:37] context where they de facto criminalize ordinary Islamic
[00:21:41] behavior, whether it is the Muslim prayer, whether it is the Islamic
[00:21:45] clothing, or whether it is something else that is common and general for
[00:21:48] those Muslims who choose to practice their Islam, and our
[00:21:52] point of view is that they deserve all possible support and backing in that, and not
[00:21:56] to let themselves be intimidated and pressured by politicians or rectors to give up
[00:21:59] what they are convinced of. Now you say ordinary Islamic
[00:22:03] behavior. Hisparia, which you advocate for, fights for a global
[00:22:07] Islamic caliphate based on Sharia law.
[00:22:11] Danish high schools are based on open-mindedness, free thinking and democratic
[00:22:15] education. When you do not support Danish democracy, why should
[00:22:19] you interfere in what happens in Danish secular
[00:22:22] educational institutions?
[00:22:26] I thought that when one claimed to be in favor of freedom of opinion and independent
[00:22:30] thinking, that it was precisely to make room for the exchange of
[00:22:34] thoughts and opinions, but what I hear from the minister, and what I hear
[00:22:37] insinuated in your question, is that one is completely free to think and choose, as long as one does not
[00:22:41] choose one's Islamic values, that we will resist, we believe that it is
[00:22:45] worth fighting for, that Muslim youth and older people for that matter, get
[00:22:49] the opportunity. uh to hold on to their own value system and live in the
[00:22:53] way they are convinced of, and then there must be an
[00:22:56] exchange of thoughts in high schools, I think that is only healthy, but it is not us who want
[00:23:00] to shut it down.
[00:23:03] Yes, if Danish democracy cannot be discussed, if secularism cannot be
[00:23:06] discussed, then it is on the other side of this debate that the judges
[00:23:10] have, to the highest degree, arrived. Thank you for sharing your
[00:23:13] opinion
[00:23:14] here.
[00:23:18] For the first time since Ukraine's president came to power,
[00:23:22] Volodymyr Zelenskyy has today been on an official visit to Serbia,
[00:23:25] a country that traditionally has close ties to Russia.
[00:23:28] Serbia has not wanted to impose sanctions against Russia as punishment for the invasion
[00:23:32] of Ukraine in 2022, but recognizes Ukraine's
[00:23:36] national borders.
[00:23:38] Which means territorial integrity of all
[00:23:42] member states of the United Nations, which also means territorial
[00:23:46] integrity of Ukraine.
[00:23:50] In addition to the recognition, Zelenskyy also received a promise from Serbia's President
[00:23:53] Aleksandar Vučić of humanitarian aid.
[00:23:57] The visit to Serbia is seen by some Ukrainians as a slap in the face to
[00:24:00] Moscow, which considers Serbia an ally. But there are
[00:24:04] no signs that Serbia will go a step further, for example, punish Russia with
[00:24:07] sanctions, which is otherwise a strong Ukrainian
[00:24:10] wish.
[00:24:14] on Russian weapons, on the supply of these elements - this is primarily about...
[00:24:17] a lot to gain from this
[00:24:30] visit. I think it seems like a very sensible strategy, he goes
[00:24:34] into the lion's den a little bit in the lion's den
[00:24:37] here in Belgrade, but he also knows that a lot is at
[00:24:40] stake for Serbia, they want to move closer to the EU, they have not
[00:24:44] joined the EU's sanctions, so this nurturing of relations with
[00:24:47] Ukraine is a way for Serbia to also say. We kind of want
[00:24:51] the EU, we kind of want the politics you have, so we can
[00:24:54] hope that, yes, the Serbs can hope that they can get closer to the EU, get some
[00:24:58] concessions from the EU's side. Now we need to
[00:25:01] meet Jasmine Joersordos, she is from the Philippines and now a maid
[00:25:04] in Nuuk. Because in Greenland, there is a shortage of hands for all
[00:25:08] kinds of jobs, and therefore, yes, labor from all over the world has been opened, and
[00:25:12] from Asia, it has poured in. First thing
[00:25:16] to do is I have to use the gloves. When your hotel bed.
[00:25:50] more than eight times in the last 10
[00:25:53] years. i'm so very grateful and thankful for everything that i
[00:25:57] came here. In total, there are now 1900 citizens from
[00:26:00] Asian countries in Greenland.
[00:26:03] out of a population of just 56,000 here in
[00:26:07] Greenland, when you go to shops and to restaurants, there are many
[00:26:11] Filipinos, there are also many from other places in Asia, for
[00:26:14] example Thailand, it really characterizes the street scene,
[00:26:18] and maybe there are more Filipinos on the way? I wish more
[00:26:21] Filipino, because we're very hardwing. Four
[00:26:25] years ago, 31-year-old Jasmin traveled to the other side of
[00:26:28] the globe. here to the high
[00:26:33] north, actually, didn't dream to come here, but my
[00:26:37] mother-in-law,
[00:26:39] still working here for 18
[00:26:41] years, a working life with a coveted
[00:26:45] paycheck, but also a life of sacrifice
[00:26:48] and sacrifices, bus i have kids, you
[00:26:52] have kids back home, yeah, send them back home last december
[00:26:56] 2024, Jasmin's children aged 10 and 11 are
[00:27:00] the reason why she won't stay in Greenland
[00:27:05] forever? I think no, I will go back
[00:27:07] home to my place. Everyone wants
[00:27:10] to die in the place where they born, but it will be a long
[00:27:14] time before mom,
[00:27:17] maybe 10 years to 15 years from
[00:27:21] now, I think that's good enough to retired.
[00:27:25] Kasper Skråder, you are our economics correspondent,
[00:27:27] you are with us again from Nuuk. Kasper, why is it that
[00:27:31] Greenland has such a great need to recruit
[00:27:34] labor from outside,
[00:27:38] it is one of the biggest problems for Greenland's economy, lack of
[00:27:41] labor, the unemployment queue, it is short, the unemployment rate is lower,
[00:27:45] the workforce, it is small, there are more elderly, and then there are also quite
[00:27:49] many young people who are completely outside the labor market and are neither in work nor
[00:27:52] in education, that is why at Hotel Hansede, where
[00:27:56] I visited Jasmine Joses here, that it is almost half
[00:28:00] of the employees who are from the Philippines. "there are cafes
[00:28:03] here in Nuuk behind me that only have
[00:28:06] Asian staff employed, and the employers tell me, we would
[00:28:10] actually like to hire Greenlanders, but they are not there. there is nothing
[00:28:14] unusual in itself in importing labor from outside, you also see
[00:28:18] that in Denmark, a number of European countries, the unusual thing here is that you
[00:28:21] recruit unskilled labor for all sorts of
[00:28:25] quite low- paying jobs from the other
[00:28:28] side of the world, and that has happened in just a few years."
[00:28:32] So 10 years ago, there were 160 Filipinos in
[00:28:36] uh uh in Greenland, now there are, now there are 1300, that number is constantly
[00:28:40] growing. Yes, as you say, that number is constantly growing, it is a rather large number, given
[00:28:43] that Greenland's total population is just over
[00:28:47] 58, 57,000, is there
[00:28:49] support for recruiting additional labor to
[00:28:52] Greenland?
[00:28:55] Yes, I experience that, if I take the employers
[00:28:59] first, they say, well, we simply cannot see that this, this is a need, this is...
[00:29:02] stops, these are temporary arrangements, they come on, they get a
[00:29:05] permit for the first two years, then it is extended by one year at a time, but many of them have been
[00:29:09] here for five, eight, 10 years, they have had children
[00:29:13] here, they have had children up here who have gone to primary school here in
[00:29:16] Greenland, and many say, we simply cannot see it, it, it stops, there is
[00:29:20] a need for it, generally I experience in the Greenlandic population, when I talk to people
[00:29:23] who are not employers and use this arrangement, that they are positive about
[00:29:27] labor from outside, it is also something one has a long tradition for here
[00:29:31] in Greenland, there have come... and people here to for
[00:29:33] work.
[00:29:35] We have to go home again, because from today and in the coming week, thousands
[00:29:38] will traditionally participate in Kopenhagen Pride
[00:29:41] Week. But it happens in the shadow of the attack on Berlin
[00:29:45] Pride just two weeks ago, where one person was
[00:29:48] killed, and several slept. Here at home, the Copenhagen
[00:29:51] police have therefore for the same reason safety patrols ready
[00:29:54] at the City Hall Square. It is clear when you have a
[00:29:58] big parade that goes a long way through Copenhagen, then we fill more of it.
[00:30:02] than we otherwise would, if one had intended to go to pride before
[00:30:06] the incident down in Berlin, then we do not think there is anything that
[00:30:09] makes one change that decision. At the organizer
[00:30:13] of Copenhagen Pride, there is confidence that the police have control over security, so the pride
[00:30:16] event can proceed peacefully. It was
[00:30:20] terrible to receive that message two weeks ago, uh, but
[00:30:24] for me, it also gives a fighting spirit and a spark to how
[00:30:28] important the work is, and I feel that we, I feel
[00:30:32] safe. personally, and I, I know that the police have done everything they can to
[00:30:36] ensure safety, and
[00:30:38] Camilla Søler fast, you are at exactly City Hall Square, which is these
[00:30:42] days transformed into Pride Square, has it all been kicked
[00:30:45] off,
[00:30:48] it certainly has, as you can hear behind me, it's
[00:30:51] the Eurovision singer from Denmark, Søren.