Thousands of Danes protest cancelling of public holiday

Demonstrators take part in a protest against the government's proposal to abolish a public holiday to help finance the defence budget, in front of the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb 5, 2023.COPENHAGEN — Thousands of people gathered in Copenhagen on Sunday to protest a bill put forward by the government to scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defence spending.

Unions organising the protest estimated at least 50,000 people took part, which would make it Denmark's biggest demonstration in more than a decade. Local police don't give such crowd estimates. The government has proposed moving forward by three years to 2030 a goal of meeting a Nato defence spending target of two per cent of GDP. It says most of the extra 4.5 billion Danish crowns needed to meet the target could be covered by the higher tax revenues it anticipates from abolishing the holiday.

In the Danish labour market, pay and working hours are primarily regulated by collective agreements between highly-organised worker and employer groups without intervention by the state.

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Thousands of Danes protest cancelling of public holidayCOPENHAGEN: Thousands of people gathered in Copenhagen on Sunday (Feb 5) to protest a Bill put forward by the government to a scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defence spending. The demonstration was organised by the country's biggest labour unions which oppose abolishing the Great Prayer Da
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