Intensive immigration to Europe from Islamic countries is still considered the most important political issue that worries European peoples after the European citizen recently felt that his national identity has become threatened and that the cultural integration of migrants in Western societies was not achieved in the desired image.
This situation prompted European countries to switch from the policy of absorbing the new next and welcoming it to a protectionist policy that closes the doors in front of any attempts to migrate to them, and Denmark, the Scandinavian Kingdom, at the head of these countries.
Since the so -called migrant crisis in 2015, the year in which about 1.3 million immigrants flowed to Europe – the largest number since World War II – two seekers of political asylum and most of them Syrians and many of them from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Nigeria, and the Scandinavian Kingdom creates policy after another to legalize the entry of immigrants to it, until it reached the application of the policy (Zero Refugee). With this policy, Denmark focuses on returning the immigrant to his country instead of allowing him to stay.
And Denmark has tended from 2022 to other countries such as Africa Rwanda to check asylum applications instead of allowing this on its soil and also canceled asylum applications for many Syrian immigrants in particular.
It leads these militant policies towards immigrants – which have wide popular and blessed support from most other political parties – the government of Prime Minister (Mitt Friedrixen) of the Social Democrats Party that also seeks and through the presidency of Denmark to the European Union Council to generalize the experience of using countries outside the Union to consider asylum requests and is supported by other European countries such as Malta, Estonia, the Netherlands and Italy.
Denmark’s strict policy in the face of many requests for asylum has led to a decrease in requests from twenty -one thousand requests in 2015 to only two thousand requests last year. In 2024 itself did not give asylum only to 864 cases, which is the number of four decades, which means success for the steps taken in the immigration file.
The tightening of confronting migration contributed to achieving the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the title of the best city to live in the world in 2025, achieving almost complete signs of stability, education and infrastructure, according to the report of the Economist.
I see that the state of popular aversion is one of the immigrants that is currently spreading in Europe, so no matter how European politicians try at some point the idea of integration between immigrants and society, but the reality has proven its catastrophic failure and the largest evidence of the existence of (ghettos) in every European capital for tens of thousands of immigrants in which poverty, violence and unemployment are spread and suffer from social and economic isolation. On the other hand, many immigrants live in a state of complete rejection of their new reality, which leads some of them to exaggerate religion as a kind of protection for his beliefs, but rather adopts extremist ideas in many cases, which is an extreme risk of European societies from the inside. Encouraging individually European contradictions between yesterday and today is not just a change in policies, but rather an unannounced recognition of the failure of the theories of “multi -culture” It was promoted and sold to the countries of the world as a recipe for urbanization, as well as the idea of ”resettlement” for the immigrant in the new country without taking into account the difference in religion, culture and language. The irony is that Europe, which tried to teach others lessons in openness and integration, found itself in the end to the first to retreat from them, to apply the policy of closure and seeking to protect the remaining national identity that was subjected to unprecedented distortion.
