Voters in Copenhagen consider immigration and integration as the most important issues before the mayor elections in November

Copenhagen Post:

Women's contact to the labour market, gang wars in the district of Nørrebro, illiteracy among elementary school graduates, blood feuds, too many social benefit recipients, extremist Muslim organisations, forced marriages, ghettoes, and language problems.

The list is long, and Danish voters get daily doses of news and information reminding them - justly or unjustly - that immigration is not a piece of cake.

Therefore, it may not be surprising that voters in Copenhagen consider immigration and integration the single most important issue before November's local elections.

A recent survey conducted by Rambøll Management for daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten revealed that 35 percent out of 1051 respondents in the capital named integration as the most serious problem that the city was facing.

The number has almost tripled since September 2004, when only 13 percent said integration should be the local government's first priority. Instead, the year-ago poll suggested that the public education system and the care of the elderly were the city's biggest challenges.

Immigration consultant Fahmy Almajid told the newspaper that a high dropout level amongst immigrants in the education system, a high unemployment rate, and a high share of immigrant's among the city's criminals were some of the reason behind Copenhageners' change of heart.

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