Denmark’s new left-wing government loosens harsh immigration rules, right wing protests

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Denmark's right wing attacks the new liberal government for dismantling draconian immigration laws.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120110/danes-loosen-immigration-rules

Denmark’s new left-wing government has made its first moves to loosen the country’s draconian immigration laws, opening it up to attack from the country’s powerful far-right.

The new coalition, which took power last October, has proposed abolishing the points-based immigration system and the Danish language exam that the previous center-right government had brought in, even for immigrants with wives or husbands already residing in Denmark.

The two laws are the most recent of the measures brought in over the past decade as a result of a campaign by the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party, on which the previous government relied for its parliamentary majority.

Immigration is a big issue in Denmark, with the far-Right Danish People’s Party taking a 12.3 per cent share of the vote in last September's general election. This is despite the fact that first or second-generation immigrants make up only 9.5 per cent of the Danish population, less than half the proportion of neighbouring Sweden.

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