Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) used her New Year’s address to once again call for an end to European Court of Human Rights case law that, all too often, prevents Danish courts from deporting criminal foreign nationals.

Accordingly, Immigration and Integration Minister Rasmus Stoklund (S) will, by this summer, set out in the Danish Aliens Act that a prison sentence of a year or more will mean deportation—even if the person has family in Denmark.