While Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is hoping that a protest letter from 27 countries will prompt the European Court of Human Rights to change its case law, the court’s president is asking that it not be subjected to political pressure.

Strasbourg rejects Danish pressure: »You must not tell us what to do«

The government’s proposal to deport foreign nationals convicted of crimes who have been sentenced to a year in prison or more was not passed before the election was called, so it will be up to the next government to decide whether to reintroduce it. Foto: Tariq Mikkel Khan
The government’s proposal to deport foreign nationals convicted of crimes who have been sentenced to a year in prison or more was not passed before the election was called, so it will be up to the next government to decide whether to reintroduce it. Foto: Tariq Mikkel Khan
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We hear you, but no thanks to diktats.

That, roughly speaking, is the reaction from the president of the European Court of Human Rights, the Frenchman Mattias Guyomar, to the Danish government’s proposal to deport all foreign nationals convicted of crimes who have been sentenced to a year in prison or more.

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