Roskilde Festival creates sense of community

One of Europe's biggest rock festivals begins today near the Danish city of Roskilde. The social-liberal daily Politiken praises the event's organisers for their voluntary work: "The Roskilde Festival has long been considered an important pillar of culture. Year after year new generations of young people familiarise themselves with a broad spectrum of first-class music. ... But the festival is not only a first class cultural outlet in a musical sense. At a time when the political leadership agrees that only tax cuts and economic incentives can motivate people, a festival that owes its success to volunteers reminds us that not everything fits into neat mathematical formulas. The festival has managed to maintain, expand and modernise the spirit that brought hippies together for the first time in 1971. ... An occasion to thank the thousands of people who are showing this year once again that a sense of community can achieve great things."

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