The Prime Minister of Denmarkthe social democrat Puts Federiksen, has made clear the priorities of his country while presiding over the EU advice: he European rear in front of the Russian threat and the Fight against irregular immigration. The Scandinavian country, of six million inhabitants, is an advanced student in both subjects. Has rapidly increased the budget in defense -which the first time includes the – And applies one of the Migration policies harder of the EU, typical of the extreme right. Federiksen is an example of the migration turn of some of the parties European social democrats.
This is Federiksen’s second mandate. In the first (2019 to 2022) he ruled in a minority with the parliamentary support of the center-left. Now he has the center-right partner, which is part of the government. The Foreign Minister, for example, is the squeezer liberal minister Lars Lures Rasmussen.
Federiksen defends in Defenseas required by the US president Donald Trump to NATO partners. When he took over the Danish government six years ago, the percentage was only 1.3%. This year will exceed 3%. The mass rearmament plan has a fund of 7,000 million euros until the end of the next year. This figure will reach more than double in 2033. It is the greater purchase of weapons and investment in defense in history of the Nordic country.
The mandatory mili for women follow the wake of . From last July, all the Danish who turn 18 have to register, undergo an aptitude evaluation and, if necessary, enter a raffle to fill the squares that the government wants to cover. Last year they did military service 4,700 soldiersof which 24% were women, but volunteers. Defense wants to increase the total number of recruits to 6,500 in eight years. In any case, Denmark already has a Professional Army of about 9,000 troops. “The defense needs all the struggle power we can mobilize,” said General Michael W. Hyldgaard.
Commitment to Ukraine
The Russian threat It is very present is that part of Europe. Denmark is one Strategic Plaza for NATO, for their geographical situation in the Baltic Sea. Has troops deployed in Latvia (150 troops) and in Latvia (800 soldiers), the small countries of the region that were part of the USSR and that share border with Russia. Next to Lithuania They have expressed their fear of being the next objective of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Moscow has a naval base in the province of the only one in the Baltic. This province was separated moreover of the Russian territory after the dissolution of the USSR.
Very committed to Ukrainethe Copenhagen government announced at the beginning of the year the intention of Send unarmed soldiers To Ukraine to learn the new combat techniques. “This decision endangers Danish soldiers,” was Moscow’s response. In the past, military from the Scandinavian country participated in the wars of BosniaIrak, AfghanistanLibya and Syria.
Trump’s claims to keep Greenlandsemi -autonomous territory of Denmark, also worries the Danish government. “Europe faces a serious situation, with a war in the continent and changes in geopolitical reality,” Federiksen said after announcing that the country will reinforce its Military presence in the Arctic region and the North Atlantic. “Greenland is not for sale,” Copenhagen insists.
In his right turnFederiksen has not hesitated to associate Denmark’s security at the arrival of non -western people fleeing economic wars and hardships. On several occasions he has come to say that Immigrants and the Asylum seekers They are “the biggest challenge” facing their country.
The Prime Minister has gone from defending a “multiethnic society” to assume the speech of the extreme right party, Danish popular party (Ppd), and conservative liberals. When the latter were government, with Rasmussen as prime minister, they approved in 2016 a law that allowed the authorities confiscate To asylum seekers the cash, jewels and other value objects for List your stay in the country. The government also studied sending immigrants without papers to an island that housed a research center of .
Three years ago, with Federiksen already at the head of the Executive, a according to Rwanda to transfer the African country to asylum seekers. It has not yet been effective. Denmark is also the first European country to point out as “safe” some parts of Syria to deport refugees of the Arab country. “Have Too many foreigners without legal residence In Denmark that they do not return home, it is unsustainable, ”Mattias Tesfaye, the then Danish minister for immigration and integration, said in 2021. Tesfaye, today in charge of the Ministry of Education, is the son of an Ethiopian immigrant.
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