Danes clash with reality as their nation slowly comes to terms with their loss of sovereignty in joining the European Union.
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) is without5 an answer to how he will maintain Denmarks immigration policy after ECJ rulings. Lawyers and Pia Kjærsgaard (DPP): The tough immigration policy is “capsized”.
Prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) didn’t manage to remove the impression that Danish immigration policy is in crisis, when he returned back to the political scene after his summer vacation.
The ECJ have bit by bit dismantled the Danish mechanisms, which should have prevented that the ECJ could be used to bypass the rules for family reunions – so much that both politicians and juridical experts calls the rules “undermined”, “capsized” and “hollowed out”.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen promised, that »Danish immigration policy stands steady. The Government will not sit idle while the Danish family reunion rules are being hollowed out by the back entrance.«
“Fogh owes an answer”
But he didn’t tell how he intends to do it, says Pia Kjærsgaard (DPP):
“Fogh owes an answer to what he intends to do to make sure that the the immigration policy stays firm, which it isn’t at the moment. The immigration policy is capsized. It is simply the foundation in the tightened rules [as opposed to the immigration law of 1983 – ed], we’re talking about,” says Pia Kjærsgaard.
Peter Starup, lecturer, Ph.D. South Danish University, estimates that the ECJ have undermined the Danish rules concerningfami9ly reunions and expects the hole to grow even bigger.
Professor Dr. Jur. Hjalte Rasmussen: “Many plugs have been pulled out of Danish immigration policy.« He estimates that the Prime Minister have to »Rebuild a EU-frame, which can sustain an independent Danish immigration policy.«
It is exactly what Fogh Rasmussen will try: The Government will make contact with the EU Commission and a number of the 10 other EU countries, which like Denmark were against the latest ruling, the Prime Minister explained.
Professor Peder Nedergaard, CBS (Copenhagen Business School): “At a European level the wind blows favorably for Denmark, since several countries views free immigration to Europe as a problem. The question as thus, why Fogh only now starts to influence the other EU countries. He could have done it a long time ago, when it was known that the ruling were on its way.”
The head of the EU Parliament’s judicial unit Poul Runge Nielsen, predicts that the Danish government will have a hard time changing the directive, that the ECJ ruling is based on:
“Even if it succeeds convincing the Commision, it has to be ratified in the Minister Council and the EU Parliament. And the very principle of free movement, which is the core of the matter is anchored in EU’s constitution, the treaty,” says Poul Runge Nielsen.
The leader of the Social-Democrats Helle Thorning-Schmidt believes that there is a »maximum confusion« about the Danish immigration policy: “The thing is that it isn’t possible to find a single Dane, who can say what the legal status of the immigration area is at the moment.”
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