Denmark to build island near Copenhagen

Denmark plans to build a new island near Copenhagen’s harbor to create more space for the city’s growing population, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Friday.

The island proposal could be fully established by 2070, host housing for 35,000 people and also protect the city from rising sea levels, Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, as reported by Reuters.

– The capital is in rapid development, being built as never before. That’s good but it also means that Copenhagen will run out of plots eventually, and that’s why we want to build a new island – Rasmussen said.

As he said, the project would demand investment of around USD 3.1 billion, including in a harbor tunnel and a metro line, but will be self-financing over time, the prime minister said. The project would be a subsidiary of a company jointly owned by the City of Copenhagen and the Danish State.

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Lars Lokke Rasmussen