\n Contactless feature for MobilePay, four municipalities yet to confirm election outcome, Aagaard threatens to take EU out of COP30 and more news from Denmark this Thursday.\n <\/p>\n
MobilePay app can now be used for contactless payment\u00a0<\/p>\n
Denmark\u2019s MobilePay is to be updated so that you can swipe it over contactless payment terminals like, for instance, Apple Pay users or with normal bank cards.<\/p>\n
Vipps MobilePay, which owns the payment platform in Denmark, confirmed that apps will start getting updates from this morning that will allow the contactless function.<\/p>\n
Some 4.6 million people in Denmark use MobilePay. However, only users who are customers with Danske Bank or SEB Kort, or have a Mastercard linked to their MobilePay app, will get the function to begin with.<\/p>\n
Visa cards and other banks will be added to the function from next year, as will direct bank payments, MobilePay said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will roll out to even more banks when they are ready and we expect that to be as soon as possible,\u201d MobilePay director for Denmark Jeanette Hertzum said to newswire Ritzau.<\/p>\n
Four municipalities yet to find new mayor<\/p>\n
Four Danish towns are yet to find their new mayor after Tuesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n
The municipalities in question are Middelfart, Helsing\u00f8r, Lolland and Sor\u00f8.<\/p>\n
Helsing\u00f8r saw a particularly dramatic course of events yesterday when the Social Democratic candidate was announced as the new mayor before a pile of votes for the Conservatives were found mixed among the Social Democratic ones, forcing a recount.<\/p>\n
After municipal elections, elected councillors go through a process termed konstituering in which localised alliances between parties are decided, putting a candidate in the mayoral seat. This is not always the candidate from the party with the largest vote share, and the alliances can often vary from the ones between parties in parliament.<\/p>\n
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Aagaard threatens to walk out of climate summit if CO2 cuts not agreed<\/p>\n
Climate minister Lars Aagaard says the EU is prepared to walk away from the COP30 summit in Bel\u00e9m if countries fail to agree on deeper CO2 reductions, Ritzau reports.<\/p>\n
Aagaard, in his role as the EU presidency\u2019s lead negotiator, is prepared to put the entire EU delegation on a plane home from COP30 with no deal if negotiators cannot agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions, he said.<\/p>\n
Such a move would leave talks on a new financing target for climate adaptation in developing countries without EU support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the world to come together to cut emissions. And if we can\u2019t be reassured on that, there will be no agreement,\u201d he said ahead of the summit.<\/p>\n
COP30, which is scheduled to conclude on Friday, looks set to struggle amid demands for greater emissions reductions and calls for more funding for climate adaptation in developing countries.<\/p>\n
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Denmark sentences Norwegian footballer for sharing sex video of minor<\/p>\n
Norwegian footballer Andreas Schjelderup was handed a 14-day suspended sentence in Denmark yesterday for sharing a video of a sexual nature involving minors, Norwegian media reported.<\/p>\n
Schjelderup admitted sharing the 27-second video on Snapchat.<\/p>\n
Danish prosecutors had called for the 21-year-old to serve 20 days behind bars as part of a deal for pleading guilty, but the Copenhagen court gave him a 14-day suspended sentence and a year’s probation.<\/p>\n
“You’re getting a yellow card,” judge Mathias Eike said as he read out the verdict, according to Norwegian newspaper VG.<\/p>\n
The incident took place two years ago when Schjelderup played for Danish club Nordsj\u00e6lland. He now plays in Portugal for Benfica.<\/p>\n
During proceedings on Wednesday, Schjelderup admitted sharing the video as “a bad joke” with four friends on Snapchat, VG said.<\/p>\n
The striker apologised on November 8th in a post to Instagram, admitting to having made a “stupid mistake”.<\/p>\n
He said he deleted the clip shortly after sending it, when a friend pointed out that it contained illicit content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contactless feature for MobilePay, four municipalities yet to confirm election outcome, Aagaard threatens to take EU out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-307908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}