Denmark Sets Limits on Immigration
After a long and heated debate, Denmark’s parliament passed a controversial plan Friday to limit immigration.
The center-right government’s bill, making it more difficult to obtain asylum and cutting welfare for immigrants, was passed with votes from the vehemently anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party.
The party became the third-largest in parliament in November elections after an anti-immigrant campaign.
The law, which Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says could be a model for Europe, was passed just days after France and Germany made a joint appeal to tighten European immigration in an effort to prevent Europe’s far right from exploiting the issue at the ballot box.
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