The governing Liberal Party wants foreigners to pass a Danish language test before they are allowed to to move to Denmark

Copenhagen Post:

PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s Liberal Party wants to demand that foreigners pass a test in Danish before they can hope to be reunited with their families in Denmark, national broadcaster DR reported.

Liberal MP and spokesman on integration Irene Simonsen wants all Danish embassies abroad to give classes in Danish.

‘They should pass an initial Danish course and a little class teaching them what sort of a country they will be moving to,’ she said.

The Netherlands have implemented a similar test as a precondition for family reunification.

‘We know that some of the people who are unified with their families here might just as well have moved to a different planet. They simply have no idea where they are, and they don’t understand a word of the language,’ Simonsen said.

Social Liberal spokesman on integration affairs Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen said she considered the idea as proof that there were no limits to how bad Denmark could treat foreigners.

‘Denmark is already one of the countries in the world which impose the strictest demands for family reunificiation. It’s so much easier to get to know Denmark once you’re in the country,’ she said.

The Liberal Party, however, has secured a majority support for the proposal in parliament.

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