COPENHAGEN, Aug. 29, 2007 – The mayor of Copenhagen expressed her support yesterday for having Copenhagen co-sponsor a large conference to investigate the possibility of building a direct connection between Copenhagen, and Denmark 's second-largest city Aarhus, across the Kattegat Sea.

The Kattegat connection, including a high-speed magnetically levitated rail line, has been a key proposal of the Danish Schiller Institute, collaborators of Lyndon LaRouche, to integrate the nation into the Eurasian Landbridge.

The news of Copenhagen's support for the conference comes a few days after the mayors of 15 surrounding cities formed a traffic coalition, which attacked the idea of spending a lot of money to build a Kattegat connection, calling for solving the traffic problems of Copenhagen first.

Interviewed by the daily Jyllands-Posten yesterday, Ritt Bjerregaard, the Social Democratic mayor of Copenhagen, said, "We have put the telescope up to our blind eye, and ignored the country's real traffic needs for too long. I support the conference because it puts a focus on the need to think new thoughts in Danish traffic politics."

The mayor of Aarhus, Nicolai Wammen welcomed the call.

Copenhagen's support for the conference means that the Kattegat proposal campaign, launched by the Schiller Institute one year ago, has now replaced the unambitious "6-city" proposal to connect Denmark 's six largest cities with medium speed conventional rail.