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13 - 19 January 2012 | Vol 15 Issue 2
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The mayor’s behaviour at an office Christmas party has left him with a political hangover
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OPINION
Reflection of reality? Transparency International gave Denmark high marks, but even we are vulnerable to greed and weakness
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BUSINESS
40 years on and still beloved
Is ‘inshoring’ the new trend? Several businesses are moving production back to Denmark
The “versatile” Queen Margrethe II celebrates four decades on the throne
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Government proposes end to points system
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JENNIFER BULEY Disagreement over strictest family reunification rules splits opposition
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HEN THE government presented a bill to parliament on Monday proposing to scrap the controversial points system for family reunification, it received significant support from half the opposition as well. “The points system doesn’t work optimally. There are things that need to be adjusted, and we want to help those adjustments happen,” the opposition Konservative (K) party’s immigration
spokesperson, Mike Legarth, told Poli- unable to make the cut. In September, tiken newspaper. it was reported that the number of resiJust last summer K helped their dent permit approvals had fallen by 70 former coalition partners, Venstre (V) percent due to the points system. and the Dansk Folkeparti (DF), impleThat result has led to K, another ment the current points system for fam- opposition party, Liberal Alliance (LA), ily reunification, which requires non- and many business organisations proEU spouses of legal Danish residents testing against the same strict rules that and citizens to earn the right to stay in the left-of-centre parties Radikale (R) Denmark by amassing points for higher and Enhedslisten (EL) have condemned education, full-time work, Danish lan- on civil rights grounds. guage skills, community service, and “At a time when the business comother criteria. munity needs competent workers from The criteria are so strict – and the outside, a person can be hired by a Danminimum number of points needed to ish company at a high salary and still not qualify for residency is so difficult to be able to get residency for their spouse achieve – that a number ofOrganise highly-ed- aifpersonal the spouse doesn’t also have a full-time meeting ucated, top-earning spouses have been job,” K immigration spokesperson Mike
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Legarth explained to Politiken. LA political spokesperson Simon Emil Ammitzbøll said his party was also ready to negotiate with the left-of-centre government on the immigration rules, “if we think it will pull Denmark in a more liberal direction”. LA does not, however, support the plan to reduce the cash security deposit required for non-EU spouses from 100,000 to 50,000 kroner, as the government is proposing. Ammitzbøll told Politiken that foreigners ought to be able to prove they can support themselves without help from the welfare sys-
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