Managed migration in Denmark
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Immigrant women encouraged to join voluntary associations
An action plan, consisting of over fifty initiatives, was launched by the Minister for Social Affairs and Gender Equality, Eva Kjer Hansen, in January.
1 July 2006 (89 words)
DPP seeks to influence government's welfare agenda
The chair of the DPP's parliamentary group, Kristian Thuelsen Dahl, says that reducing the number of immigrants is the only way to ensure the future of the welfare state.
11 April 2006 (225 words)
Changes increase hurdles for citizenship and create suspicion
Following immigration changes, it will be much harder to gain Danish citizenship.
7 March 2006 (426 words)
New family reunification measures criticised
The governing Liberal Party is considering introducing language and democracy tests in home countries as a precondition for family reunification.
7 March 2006 (332 words)
Points system introduced as immigrants blamed for welfare state problems
The minister of health and the interior, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, says that tighter restrictions on immigration from developing countries are to be introduced and that such immigrants would only be granted entry if they have the necessary qualifications to secure a job immediately.
30 January 2006 (370 words)
Council of Europe Commissioner criticises Denmark
The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner, Alvaro Gil-Robles, described Danes as 'primitive nationalists' in an article in Kristeligt Dagblad, while Sweden's leading newspaper Aftonbladet branded Denmark as 'the most racially prejudiced country in Europe'.
19 January 2006 (128 words)
Anti-racist declaration signed
In December 2005, twelve Danish authors published a 'Declaration regarding ethnic discrimination in Denmark' in the newspaper Politiken, in which they protested against the disparagement directed particularly at Muslim fellow-citizens.
16 January 2006 (167 words)
DPP tells church not to dabble in politics
At the end of 2005, a number of priests criticised Danish integration policies.
1 January 2006 (115 words)
Demonstrators criticise language tests
In December 2005, hundreds of immigrants, refugees and language teachers protested outside parliament against the new immigration and citizenship regulations.
1 January 2006 (138 words)
Councils not complying with immigration law on integration contracts
According to a Ramboll Management study, many councils are not meeting government requirements of filing contracts on individual immigrants within one month of their arrival.
25 December 2004 (100 words)
Creation of new cultural canon
Culture minister Brian Mikkelsen says the government's proposed national cultural canon will renew focus on the nation's heritage.
10 December 2004 (126 words)
Danish PM shunned Muslims in dialogue on integration
The Muslim community has been very critical of Anders Fogh Rasmussen for failing to invite one Muslim representative to a dialogue of 22 guests at his official residence.
12 October 2004 (61 words)
Refugees to be selected on 'integratability'
The government's think-tank on integration has proposed that Denmark should select its quota of 500 UN refugees on the basis of their ability to successfully integrate into society.
7 October 2004 (76 words)
Harsh family reunification statute put to the test
Condemned by the Council of Europe's human rights commission, for contravening European Human Rights Conventions, the most restrictive immigration laws in Europe, which include a 24-year age minimum for spousal reunification, are to be legally tested by Denmark's National Advisory Documentation Centre on Race Discrimination with a series of test cases.
21 September 2004 (105 words)
DFP's call to arms against 'Islamism'
Addressing the People's Party national caucus, Pia Kjaersgaard its leader, accused the government of turning a blind eye to fanatical Islamic groups operating in Copenhagen.
20 September 2004 (158 words)
Children, whose parents forbid their integration, could be taken into care
The Liberal Party's integration spokesperson is sponsoring a bill to make it easier for social workers to forcibly take into care children whose parents forbid them from integrating.
16 September 2004 (158 words)
Daily life is unaffected by immigration
According to Kristeligt Dagblad despite mass immigration since the 1960s, people live such segregated lives that the Danish culture has been largely unaffected.
15 September 2004 (72 words)
Integration minister plans compulsory language classes
Integration Minister Bertel Haarder supports a plan to make language teaching obligatory for all asylum seekers and immigrants.
1 June 2004 (83 words)
Calls for Muslim children to be monitored for anti-Semitism
The Centre for Holocaust and Genocide has asked that immigration authorities follow Sweden's lead and commission an investigation into the extent of anti-Semitism among Muslim schoolchildren in Danish schools.
5 March 2004 (82 words)
DPP shapes immigration and asylum agenda
The Danish Peoples Party once again boasts that it is fashioning the government's immigration policy.
1 March 2004 (286 words)
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