Denmark is one of those few countries where national interests and its citizens seem to prevail the interests of ideology and politics. To be a small (relatively homogeneous) country, probably, helps to make important decisions that relate to the whole society and, above all, to cope with them well, to manage those who control. A good example of the latter is the current leader, who, despite belonging to “European socialism”, is known for applying an economic and social policy that could not even implement the Law party in many countries of the rest of Europe. Politicians, which, however, seemed to be Code of Success of Denmark against very close geographical countries And culturally, which failed in the integration of immigration and achievement of powerful development. Nevertheless, Denmark is one of the rich economies in Europe, with one of the lowest unemployment levels and a stronger growth in GDP. He hardly has public debt, and everyone indicates that immigration integrates, at least from the point of view of labor. This is the country “on the left”, which does not tremble from its pulse, when it blows entire areas inhabited by “not worshiping” citizens or is not shy about looking for talent that he needs directly in his neighboring or culturally connected This week is supposed to be the presidency of the EU CouncilThe field is Denmark.
Denmark usually appears as an example of almost all in political debates and societies of other less successful economies. It does not seem strange that this is happening in such an advanced country, and that at the same time it has such clear things. Denmark has a level of unemployment by 6% and Per capita income in the amount of 58,600 eurosAlthough the comparison is hated by the field, here they are related to understanding the extreme wealth of this country. For example, per capita income in Spain, according to the same Eurostat indicator, is 27,740 euros (less than half) and the unemployment rate is 11.4% (almost double). At the same time, Denmark has a per capita income, slightly lower than in Norway (despite the fact that he did not have almost oil), but much higher (10,000 euros) compared to Sweden or Finland (The difference is 15,000 euros in favor of Denmark.
One of the keys to this economic success is the labor market in the integration of foreigners. Eurostat statistics agency shows that lAt the level of employment of those who were not born in the European Union (EU), it reaches 72% in DenmarkCompared to 64% of Sweden 59% of Finland. What is the difference? As they explain from the BBC in the report, Denmark made a radically different turn in terms of immigration. The country has become a “pioneer in restrictive immigration policy” in Europe, according to Marie Sandberg, director of the Center for advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) of Copenhagen University, as from the point of view of asylum -seeks, and immigrants who want to work in denanias, as explained in statements Bi -bi -xField
Demolition of entire quarters
Denmark pursues a policy aimed at the termination of the marginal ghetto or areas, which in extreme cases can even lead to the demolition of entire quarters. This measure was so controversial that even the adviser to the Supreme Court of the European Union declared it discriminatory, waiting for the sentence, which will be issued in the coming months.
Housing legislation, in force since 2018, seeks to contribute to integration in the field of the country where immigrants had relative success in the language and employment. However, its implementation, which led to the demolition of social housing in the capital, Copenhagen and in other places, caused a negative reaction of some human rights groups, injured and the United Nations.
In practice, this means that thousands of apartments are or will be demolished, sold to private or replacing investors For new houses for other profiles (Often not immigrants) to stimulate integration and prevent the ghetto, as happened in the most dangerous areas of Sweden.
The government protects that the plan is directed Dismantle “parallel societies”That politicians describe as individual enclaves, where immigrants do not participate in society as a whole and do not study Danish, even when they benefit from the generous system of social security of the country. Opponents say that this is a violent form of ethnic and free discrimination in the country, which traditionally demonstrated low -income inequality and where the poverty level in the most modest areas is much less pronounced than in many environmental countries. However, criticism and specific cases gained strength.
Muhammad Aslam58, President of the Mjolnerparken Housing Association, he was evicted as part of a housing scattering policy with his wife and one of his four children in 2023, when they publish from the agency ReutersThe field “My four children were born and raised in the house from which they evicted us,” he said. All these memories have disappeared during the night. And not only our family, but also many of our neighbors. Aslam, who arrived in Denmark from Pakistan in 1975, was implemented twice. “We are all included in negative statistics, because I was born in a non -woven country; My children who were born and raised in Miolnerpken, Denmark, are also citizens of Denmark, ”said the victims.
Transformation zones
Denmark denotes such a district as’Transformation zone ‘If more than 50% of residents are not Western immigrants Or their descendants, and if at least two other criteria for education, income, crime and participation in work are completed. The law requires that state housing associations reduce the share of public houses in the vicinity by 40% by January 2030.
The Minister of Social Affairs and Housing of Denmark, Sophia Hastorp Andersen, dealt with the fact that this plan was working, in addition to emphasizing the uninitiated nature of the opinion of the common lawyer of the European Court. “Therefore, I will wait for the final decision of the judges,” he said in a statement. After the decision of the decision, the case will return to the Danish court to determine its execution.
However, how they distinguish from Bi -bi -x Perhaps the most amazing is who is behind this initiative: Social -Democratic Government of DenmarkThe field in Denmark is solved in a completely different way than in a significant part of the countries of Europe, although some of them, like in Sweden, quickly begin to copy Danish policy to growing dissatisfaction of the population.
From Bi -bi -x They explain that many of the harsh Danish measures, according to the visible, had two clear goals: monopolize headlines, such as a function. The Danish authorities deliberately created a “hostile environment” for immigrants, ”says Alberto Horst Neudhardt, an analyst at the European Political Center, in statements to Bi -bi -xField
For example, he published advertisements in Lebanese newspapers and haunts a complete increase in the immigration crisis, emphasizing the firmness of the Danish immigration policy. “The goal was to reduce incentives to come to Denmark”Says Susi Dennison, the main researcher of the European Council for Foreign Affairs, in the statements of Bi -Bi -Ts. “The Danes went beyond this majority of European governments,” he says.
Search for qualified foreigners
While Denmark imposes severe laws for “non -wounded” immigration is looking for talents in countries with a more related culture in profiles with qualifications and training, which is not very clearly visible among neighboring countries (to which they “steal” talent). The Danish government often publishes the so -called “positive lists” for highly qualified workers from other countries to cover the lack of labor that Denmark has encountered. These lists are regularly updated with new tasks and their description.
The agency for international hire and integration (Siri) explains that a positive list for people with Higher education includes a total of 45 working namesWhile a positive list for workers with specific skills (vocational training and other education that deepens the required fields includes 46 names. This list leads to engineers, social workers, specialized employees of older people, laboratory technicians, real estate agents, participants in the logistics industry, radiologists or employees specializing in customer service.
They explained from the National Bank of Denmark in Paper Published in 2022 that the economy attracts much more for a certain type of foreign worker and is precisely those who have little or have no higher education. The explanation is that Denmark Prize for widespread training is less than in other countriesThus, the economy manages to attract to work with lower skills, which in the countries of their origin had a relatively lower salary regarding what they could get in Denmark. On the contrary, the companies have more complications to attract qualified workers (engineers, doctors …), because the bonus for salary for moving to work in Denmark is less, and therefore, this is less attractive. That is why these programs and offices are launched to find this type of employees in Europe and other Western countries.
As in the rest of Europe, although Denmark shows this message and a strict policy against immigration, the Northern country is faced with the aging of its population to a shortage of labor. Social -Democratic Government wants to solve these threats, but not at any price. “Before the crisis with refugees in 2015, there was a stereotype that the Scandinavian countries were very internationalists and had a culture of reception for persons looking for asylum,” he says. All this change is very fast. This radical turn, he explains, also caused the fact that Germany, the economy bordering Denmark, allowed more than millions of refugees to enter the country during the immigration crisis with several dubious results: “It was a political decision that had consequences throughout Europe”offer.
