But apparently Danes have now opted to abandon this suicidal path. Instead, they have decided to require interlopers, whether refugees or economic migrants, to return whence they came. As a consequence, it may be expected that the population of Denmark will in the immediate future decline. However the absence of migrants will have many economic consequences including a rise in wages as labor competition is reduced, and a decline in housing demand and hence house prices. The consequence of these changes will be earlier and easier household formation, and likely, therefore, a rise in the birth rate until the population either stabilizes, or resumes growth through multiplication of the indigenous people of the country.
Thus, as the Voice of Europe reports:
| In the future, the focus will be on sending migrants back to the third world – instead of “integrating” them. The focus will be shifted from integration to the return of refugees to their home countries whenever possible, said Peter Poornima, the Danish People’s Party’s group leader in Folketinget when the agreement was presented last autumn. The settlement also means that criminal migrants will be placed on a deserted island, that the so-called integration subsidy is reduced, that the number of family reunions for migrants will be limited, that residence permits as a rule becomes temporary and that it will be easier to withdraw permits and refrain from extending them. The package of legislation is the result of a settlement between the right-wing government and the Danish People’s Party. Together, the parties have a majority in Parliament. However, the Social Democrats will also vote for the changed rules. According to the Danish Minister of Finance Kristian Jensen, Denmark will no longer have a system in which “refugees become immigrants”. |
