Has the number of immigrants from the Muslim world to Denmark declined in the last decade?
I do not have figures as such for the Muslim world, but the overall figure, yes it has declined. The number of asylum-seekers has fallen. What about immigrants in other categories? That depends very much on what you look at because there are programs that require people with specific backgrounds, for instance, a specific education, like engineering or computers, and there is a fast-track for these people to get in. So it is much more varied than that. It is a question of getting the people that we need and where we have the possibility of giving them work from the beginning. It is not a curtailing of immigration as such. But immigration in Denmark – as in so many other countries – is regulated. I will spare you all the details, but of course you need to have a work contract, a relationship with Denmark, and so on, to get in. You will find the same here, in the US, and all other countries actually. As you must have heard numerous times, people often argue that precisely because there is
