AFTER 19 years old on the road Denmark From Sweden, Helen Sjogren is so used to cross the bridge that is identified as Scandinavian, not Swedish. The researcher at the Danish Pharmaceutical Company lives in the Lundi Swedish University with its three children, but is accustomed to Danish working practices, and the idea of working in Sweden is now hard to imagine.
“Because I’m Swedish, colleagues would expect me to behave like a Swede,” she said, inviting their reputation for consensus. “So I would see you as rude – too directly to fit in Sweden. “
Danes, she found it, is more honest. “I really like the Danish mentality and a way to be. We suit me much better.”
“I really like the Danish mentality and a way to be. We suit me much better.” At work, she and her colleagues tell a little customized version of Swedish and Danish Danish so everyone can understand each other. One of her several negivations is that her tax goes to Copenhagen, not her municipality, where her children crossed school and where she uses health services.
In the quarter of the centuries, since he opened 1. July 2000, a bridge – known as Øresundsbroen or Swedish side in the same name, only a sexual marketplace market, but changed the perspectives and even identities of many. Railway and travel connection of 15.9km (15 km) between Copenhagen and Malmo (which includes a bridge of 8 km, 4km tunnel and 4km artificial island) also turned the world’s world perception.
But the path of the two ends of the bridge was the story of two halves. Copenhagen built international super status, becoming a tourist destination, a global leader of fashion and design, host the largest airport in Nordics, as well as at home manufacturers of Ozempić, Novo Nordisk. Thanks to the weak Swedish crown, he became a magnet for Swedish workers, bringing 2 BN DKK (230 million pounds in tax revenues. Last year, 105,000 daily travels were made by car, by registration, but most traffic communicators travel towards Denmark.
Malmo failed to the same extent. Despite the fact that the Chambered Detective Saga Noren from Hat Scandi Crime Drama Most – which catapulted the Bridge, Puduhs and Tense Dark Drives via øresund – Malmo is an observer at the margins of the Danish capital. It may be the best trapped by the decision of politicians to appoint an area around the bridge covering the southern Swedish and East Denmark “Big Copenhagen”.
Of the 21,585 people who regularly communicated through the bridge to work in the last quarter of last year, 96% are people living in Sweden, according to the Institute of Øresund, an independent Swedish Danish center. By 2030. Year, larger Copenhagen, which are guided by representatives of each of the included Swedish and Danish regions, aims to increase a total of 30,000.
“The number of passengers began to increase again,” said Johan Vessman, General Manager and Director General and Editor-in-Chief. “Partly because the lack of work increases in Denmark, and in part because the Swedish crown allows it to work in Denmark and live in Sweden.” Although it was impossible to be before the bridge before the bridge – there were boats – it was significantly more long and hard. In 1999. before the bridge opened, 2,788 people were taken over.
As the train transported Sjogren towards Sweden, and the water seemed to have considered, she said that without a bridge, life, because it would have been impossible. “It would never work because it should travel so long that I would not have managed to be able to keep my life together.”
Although there are border controls in place – each train stops six to seven minutes at the Hillie Station, the first termination in Sweden from Denmark – she said she did not go to Copenhagen to go to Copenhagen as well as going to another country. “For us who we live here, the border is not a big deal,” she said.
Ali Anders Linde-Laursen, a professor at the Malmo University who studies the identity and members of the Øresund region, said the users of the bridge “constantly reminded them to cross the international border. This, said, became abundantly clear when the bridge was temporarily closed during 2015. year during the refugee crisis when the Swedish government said it was needed “Vacation” From the asylum seeker, which leads to the introduction of passengers who need to carry ID. And 2020. year during the pandemic, when the bridge was closed again. “The border hit the discourse in the region and it became very clear to everyone that they were Danes and Swedes, separated (waters) and that it could not change that.
In the offices of the Danish Energy Agency in the Central Copenhagen, Turkey is one of 19,500 people born Danish and Danish Language living in Skane, the most meaningful County of Sweden. After leaving his youngest in Preschool in Malmo, he was a train to Denmark and arrives at about 8.30 in the morning – a routine he followed for 13 years. His wife and his other two children work and go to school in Malmo and at home Swedish is their main language. “It’s all in Malmo,” Etmann said, who founded the Boenlive Facebook GeoPla Group. “Only I’m weird, it works here and has a Danish passport.”
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Originally they decided to move after a sudden change in immigration rules in Denmark meant His wife, which was a nurse with Philippines, would have problems with their visa. So they married, moved to Sweden and started the family there. He is now working at Malmo Hospital and has Swedish citizenship.
Cross-border life is no problem. Since the two governments are not integrated when it comes to administrations, paperwork can be deceived – especially when it comes to property and property taxes and property taxes. Demand for the train is such that it is usually stops only on peak times, and services are often delayed.
About 9,600 days now own summer houses in Sweden, compared to 4,400 in 2000and further 11,330 The Swedish summer houses have German owners – many of which use the bridge to get there. Danish Torpares, a paid membership organization that helps administrative difficulties in Sweden, said that the difference in price – almost half of the price are buying in Sweden than in Denmark – and the opportunity to live in insulation in nature.
Swedish Ambassador in Denmark, Hans Vallmark, said he was convinced that the advantage of the bridge in both directions, but added: “You can’t escape the fact that Copenhagen is the capital”. “Stating a comprehensive cluster, known as the valley of the Denmark, but the Danish successes like the new Nordic in Lund, a research facility still under Copenhagen data, was another example of the success story Cross Bridge, Vallmark said.
The next 25 years he predicted, would bring an even greater relationship and focus on the region – especially after Fehmarnbelt tunnel Open 2029. year, connecting the Danish city of Rødbihavn with Puttadarden, in Germany, below the Baltic Sea. “Then we may not just talk about Malmo, Copenhagen or Scanne, but also to Northern Germany,” he said in his residence in Copenhagen. “Bridges, links lead to increased integration, increased prosperity”.
But there is a lot of Malmo that does not use the bridge – either because it is forbidden (510DKK or 58.25 for cars and 160 secs or £ 12.31 for one timetable from Malmo to Copenhagen), or because of the train delay.
“It’s too expensive to cross,” said one man to rest from cycling on the Quisides in Malmou. He was recently waiting for five hours, in the middle dinner, to drive over the bridge. “It doesn’t work. It’s so often (that the train puts off). You can forget about work in Copenhagen – unless you don’t have your boat.”
