(AFP) Denmark plans to crack down further on disadvantaged neighbourhoods by reducing the number of “non-Western” residents, the Social Democratic government said Wednesday, scrapping the controversial term “ghetto” in its proposed legislation.
In the bill — a review of existing legislation on combatting parallel societies — the interior ministry proposed that the share of residents of “non-Western” origin in each neighbourhood be limited to a maximum of 30 percent within 10 years.
Denmark has for years had one of Europe’s most restrictive immigration policies, which Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has continued since coming to power in June 2019.
According to Interior Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek, too many non-Western foreigners in one area “increases the risk of an emergence of religious and cultural parallel societies,” he said in a statement.
