ByV. 19 years of commuting at Denmark From Sweden, Helen Sjögren is so used to cross the bridge to identifies to scandinavian rather than swedish. The researcher to the Danish pharmaceutical company lives in Swedish University town Lund with her three children, but made usual Danish working practices, and the idea of working in Sweden now difficult to imagine.
“Because I am Swedish, colleagues I do not expect me to behave like swede,” he said, referring to the report we seek consent. “Yes that seem to be rude – also to direct the fit in Sweden. “
Danes, which is found, are more stronger. “I really like Danish mental and way of being. It is fitting for me much better.”
“I really like Danish mental and way of being. It is fitting for me much better.” In the work, and her colleagues speak slightly accommodated versions of Swedish and Danish may all be able to understand each other. One of them, a few misgriossus that those taxes to the copernicus rather than his municipality, where they have gone to school and where it uses cares.
In the fourth century with opening 1 July 2000, and the bridge – known as øresundsbroen or Öresbron depending on you in the Danish or swedishagen on the side of the job market to wide and changed and in many and many identities. The 15.9km (9.9 miles) and Road link between coping and Malmo (which includes an 8km Bridge, 4km tunnel and 4km artificial Island) is transformed into the world’s perception of the world.
But the trajectory of the two ends of the bridge was a story for two parts. Copenhagen has soared to international state, becoming a must-see tourist destination, global fashion and design leader, host to the biggest airport in the Nordics, as well as being home to the maker of Ozempic, New Nordisk. Thanks to the weak Swedish Krona, which is made a magnet Swedish workers, bring in 2bn DKK (£ 230m) in the year in the tax return. Last year 105,000 daily trips made by car, train or boat on narrow, but the most commuter traffic is the trip to the Denmark.
Malmo are not vigemur in the same. Despite Being home to the Beloved Fictional Detective Saga Norén of the Hit Scandi Crime Drama The Bridge – Which catapulted the Bridge Murders, Crashing Ships and Tense Dark Drivers Across ORESUND – Malmo has been an observer on the Sidelines of the Danish Capital’s Success Story. It is perhaps the best captured by policy in a civil name of the area around the bridge cover Southern Sweden and East Denmark “Copernicus”.
Of the 21.585 people who have changed regularly by the bridge at work in the final fourth year, 96% were those who live in Sweden, according to the øresund institution or Swedish-Danish knowledge center. By 2022, the major copernicus, run by representatives of each included Swedish and Danish regions, the limits to increase the total to 30,000.
“Number of commuters begun to increase again,” said Johan Wessman, øresund Institute’s managing director and editor-in-leader. “Party for Labor Finance increases in Denmark, and partly that Swedish Krona makes useful work in Denmark and live a shop in Sweden.” While it is impossible to commute before the bridge – have been shipping – the significantly more time-consuming and difficult. In 1999, the year before the bridge opened, the sum of 2,788 people commed.
In order to be transported to Sjogren to Sweden and water in the view, he said that without the bridge, life, to be able to be impossible. “I have never worked because I would be taken so much time to change what you have been able to have a life together. “
Although there are no limit controls in the place – every train stops six to seven minutes to Hyllie station, first stop arrived in Sweden by Dania – and said he did not think about the copenhagen to go to another country. “For we who live here, the term is not a big thing,” he said.
But Anders Linde-Laursen, professor at Malmo University, who studies identity and to focus on øresund region, said users of the bridge are “always reminded that the international transition.” This says, became abundantly clear when the bridge is time closed in 2015 by runs discrimination with the Swedish Control said work “Work” A Asylum seekers, leading to the introduction of the passengers repetitive to carry it. And in 2020, the pandemic with a bridge again closed. “The term hit in the region, and it is clear to all of the Daniah and Swedish, separated from [water]And no bridge to change. “
The Danish Energy Agency’s Offices in Central Copernicus, Ture Ertmann is one of the 19,500 Danish, born people who live in Skåne, Sweden’s most south county. After he sends the youngest off the preschool in Malmo, and takes the train to Denmark and arrives you need to discuss 8.30am – a routine is not following for 13 years. His wife and other children need to go to school in Malmo and home Swedish is the main language. “Everything is in Malmo,” said Ertmann, who was founded on Facebook Commuter Group Broenlive. “It’s my that is an odd one of the works here and has a Danish Passport.”
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And the first decided to move after a sudden change to the relay rules denmark meant the wife, who is a nurse from the Philippines, do not have the visa. I got married to Sweden and started families. And now works in the Malmo Hospital and has a Swedish city.
Cross-term life is no problems. Because the two governments are not integrated when it comes to administration, letters can get captioniy – especially when it comes to the property and tax. Demand in a train is usually standing-place only at the peak times and services are often delayed.
About 9,600 Danes now have summer houses in Sweden, compared with 4,400 in 2000Or an additional 11.330 Swedish in the summer houses have a German owners – many of which use the bridge as there. Danske Tobpare, a solvit membership organization that helps Danish people to sail to sail problems to buy houses in Sweden, he said the price in the Nethon in Sweden is in nature is a great draws.
Sweden’s Ambassador, He said he is convinced the benefits of the bridge ran in both directions, but added: “You do not have a housetype, which is the most sunny Danish, the danica, the new Nordisk was a positive impact to the new Nordisk was a positive impact to Sweden also. Of Instauration of European Spallation Source (es) in Lund, a research facility until the construction with the datacentre in a copernicus, another example of the cross, the victory of the story, elephant.
The next 25 years, and predicted to bring a greater connection to focus on the region – especially after Fehmarnbelt tunnel In 2029 opened, connecting Danish town RødbyHavn with puttgarden in Germany in the Baltic Sea. “Then maybe we will not only get the Malmo, Copernicus and Skåne, but also North Germany,” said to his residence in Copenhagen. “Bridges, connections lead to increased integration, increased happiness.”
However, there are many in Malmo who do not use the bridge – or that is prohibitively expensive (510dkk or £ 58.25 to car toll and 160 and Malmo at Copenhagen) or for the rear of delays.
“It is also expensive as above,” said one person taking a rest of the cycling in the shows in Malmo. Recently waited for five hours, the Midsummer Eve to a train by the bridge. “I don’t work. It’s so often [that the train gets delayed]. You can not forget about commuting to Copernicus – if you have your own boat. “