The government has allocated 140 million kroner over the next four years to programmes aimed at increasing employment levels amongst women who have migrated to Denmark. The aim of the investment is to bring more women from non-Western countries onto the labour market, the Ministry for Immigration and Integration wrote on its website. “It is absolutely crucial that we get …
Minister for immigration and integration Inger Støjberg says she wants the IGU apprenticeship scheme for refugees to continue beyond 2019, when it is currently set to expire. Støjberg also said she wants to expand the scheme and use it to increase the employment rates of refugees and others entering Denmark via family reunification, Jyllands-Posten reports. The minister’s comments set her …
A much-discussed proposal that would require new Danish citizenships to shake hands with their local mayor would also come with a tripling of the fee new Danes have to pay to receive their citizenship. Forcing all citizenship applicants to participate in a ceremony in which they would have to shake hands with their mayor or another elected official would add …
A proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement is “good news for the French economy”, but Paris must keep an eye on its implementation, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Thursday. The fact that an agreement has been found “is good news for the French economy, good news for all French firms. It’s in everyone’s interest that Brexit should go ahead smoothly”, he …
Denmark’s immigration policies have been under scrutiny worldwide in recent years, with its infamous ‘jewellery law’, the recent ban on burkas and Integration Minister Inger Støjberg’s decision to celebrate immigration restriction with cake all receiving their fair share of coverage – and criticism – from international media outlets. On Sunday, the BBC broadcast an hour-long programme in which a Copenhagen …
Six failed asylum-seekers set fire to their detention centre cell in Vienna overnight and had to be hospitalised, Austrian police said Saturday. Asylum claims filed by the five Afghans and one Iranian man had been rejected and they were awaiting deportation. Police initially spoke of a collective suicide attempt but later downplayed that premise. “We think the men wanted to …
Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg on Thursday defended the success of a programme that allows refugees to take short-term jobs at an apprentice salary level and vowed that the scheme would continue despite the misgivings of the Danish People’s Party. Støjberg spent part of Thursday at the Aarhus software company CloudPartners, where two refugees have become the first to have successfully …
Paris and Berlin are looking to create a European centre for the fight against religious radicalisation, the French and German interior ministers said on Wednesday. “We have decided to propose a working group for fighting and preventing radicalisation,” French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux told a news conference in Paris. “We will take the common initiative of proposing a European …
The Conservative and Danish People’s parties say that people awarded citizenship in the Scandinavian country must be required to shake hands. New rules require people who have been awarded Danish citizenship to take part in ceremonies in their local municipalities. Participants at the ceremonies are required to sign a document promising to respect Danish values. That must be considered to …
A 46-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Vienna for the attempted murder of his roommate at an asylum centre in Simmering. In his defence the man said that he thought the 27-year-old Syrian man and a group of other men were planning to rape him. He told the jury that he had been …
