Denmark, which has one of the most restrictive reception policies in Europe, announced on Tuesday to tighten the conditions for naturalization, excluding in particular all those who have been sentenced to prison.
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“
Obtaining Danish citizenship is a great declaration of confidence on the part of Danish society (...) it is therefore necessary to raise the bar to determine who can become a Danish citizen
,” the Migration Ministry said in a statement.
For candidates for naturalization, it will therefore be necessary to show white paw: no sentence, even suspended, having ensured his subsistence for at least three and a half years over the last four years, instead of four and a half out of five.
The agreement presented by the Social Democratic government, with the support of three right-wing opposition parties, gives pride of place to “
Danish values
”, including five questions on this subject in the examination imposed on the candidates, in addition oral and written language tests. "
We want to be absolutely sure that those who receive Danish citizenship, with all the rights that come with it, are well integrated into Danish society and have also embraced it - including Danish values
," explained on public television DR. the minister, Mathias Tesfaye.
According to the national statistical institute, 11% of Denmark's 5.8 million inhabitants are of foreign origin, of which 58% are citizens of a country classified as “
non-Western
”. In 2020, out of some 7,000 people who became Danish, more than half were Europeans.
