Thousands of Danish Students Plan Strike and Protest in Copenhagen

Thousands of upper-secondary school students will strike in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

They will gather at City Hall Square at 12:30 pm.

Then they will march to Christiansborg Palace Square.

Organizers expect about 10,000 pupils to join the march.

Another 30,000 students across Denmark will walk out of class.

The protest targets government plans to cut SU grants.

Students living with high-earning parents will lose eligibility.

The threshold is a combined income over 710,077 Danish kroner per year.

Grants for students whose parents earn between 419,589 and 710,077 Danish kroner will also fall.

The government also proposed changes to graduate unemployment benefits.

New graduates must work 18 of their final 24 study months to qualify.

Without a consistent student job, graduates cannot claim immediate benefits.

The government wants to reallocate these funds to defense spending.

Student union chairperson Oscar Tønsberg Hoffmann criticized the plan as hostile to education.

This news was reported by The Local.