Danish Far-Right Proposes Remigration of Legal Residents

Den­mark’s far-right Dan­ish Peo­ple’s Par­ty has pro­posed a rem­i­gra­tion pol­i­cy to deport tens of thou­sands of legal for­eign res­i­dents receiv­ing wel­fare ben­e­fits. On 6 Novem­ber 2025, The Local Den­mark report­ed that par­ty leader Morten Messer­schmidt called for expelling between 50,000 and 100,000 legal res­i­dents on dis­abil­i­ty pen­sions and unem­ploy­ment sup­port, mark­ing the first time a Dan­ish par­lia­men­tary par­ty has pro­posed deport­ing legal res­i­dents not con­vict­ed of crimes. The arti­cle begins:

The leader of the nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive Dan­ish Peo­ple’s Par­ty (DF), Morten Messer­schmidt, has called for thou­sands of for­eign nation­als to be deport­ed from Den­mark. In an inter­view with the con­ser­v­a­tive broad­sheet Week­en­davisen, Messer­schmidt said for­eign nation­als in Den­mark who receive wel­fare ben­e­fits should be expelled from the coun­try. “As many as 40,000 for­eign­ers live on dis­abil­i­ty pen­sions in Den­mark. I think that is quite offen­sive,” he said in the inter­view. “Then there are sev­er­al oth­er ben­e­fits like unem­ploy­ment sup­port [kon­tan­thjælp, ed.] and inte­gra­tion. I can’t say an exact fig­ure, but some­where between 50,000 and 100,000,” he said, refer­ring to the num­ber of legal res­i­dents of Den­mark he’d like to see ejected.

Read more: https://www.thelocal.dk/20251106/extremist-danish-far-right-party-slammed-over-new-remigration-policy

The Dan­ish People’s Par­ty (Dan­sk Folkepar­ti, DF) is a nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal par­ty in Den­mark, found­ed on 6 Octo­ber 1995 by break­away mem­bers of the Progress Party.

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Key Points

• Morten Messer­schmidt called for deport­ing between 50,000 and 100,000 legal for­eign res­i­dents receiv­ing wel­fare ben­e­fits, includ­ing 40,000 on dis­abil­i­ty pen­sions, mark­ing the first time a Dan­ish par­lia­men­tary par­ty pro­posed deport­ing legal res­i­dents not con­vict­ed of crimes.
• Social Lib­er­al leader Mar­tin Lide­gaard con­demned the pro­pos­al as extrem­ist, stat­ing that rem­i­gra­tion is a term coined by the most far-right par­ties in Europe, includ­ing Ger­many’s AfD, Vik­tor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, and Geert Wilders.
• Lide­gaard described it as the most extreme polit­i­cal pro­pos­al he has seen from an estab­lished par­ty dur­ing his time in pol­i­tics, call­ing on the Con­ser­v­a­tives, Lib­er­al Alliance, and Den­mark Democ­rats to state they do not sup­port the idea explicitly.
• Den­mark Democ­rats, with a sig­nif­i­cant ide­o­log­i­cal over­lap with Messer­schmidt’s par­ty, stat­ed they were not sure what DF means by rem­i­gra­tion, but agreed that crim­i­nal for­eign­ers should go, and reject­ed that asy­lum seek­ers should be sent out quickly.

Scandinavia and the Global National Conservative Alliance

Scan­di­na­vian polit­i­cal par­ties have increas­ing­ly aligned with the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance, a transna­tion­al coali­tion unit­ing right-wing move­ments under prin­ci­ples of nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and oppo­si­tion to glob­al insti­tu­tions. Swe­den Democ­rats leader Mat­tias Karls­son appeared as a con­firmed speak­er at the Feb­ru­ary 2020 Nation­al Con­ser­vatism con­fer­ence in Rome, shar­ing the plat­form with Vik­tor Orbán, Mar­i­on Maréchal, and Gior­gia Mel­oni. Sim­i­lar­ly, Swe­den Democ­rats MEP Char­lie Weimers was invit­ed to a con­tro­ver­sial March 2025 Israeli gov­ern­ment anti­semitism con­fer­ence along­side oth­er far-right Euro­pean fig­ures, prompt­ing boy­cotts from French philoso­pher Bernard-Hen­ri Levy and Ger­man offi­cials con­cerned about nor­mal­iz­ing par­ties with his­tor­i­cal ties to anti­semitism. The Swe­den Democ­rats joined the Euro­pean Con­ser­v­a­tives and Reformists group in 2018, dis­tanc­ing them­selves from more overt­ly pro-Russ­ian par­ties while main­tain­ing coop­er­a­tion through the 2024 for­ma­tion of the “Nordic Free­dom” alliance with the Dan­ish Peo­ple’s Par­ty and Fin­land’s Finns Party.

Nor­way’s Progress Par­ty achieved a dra­mat­ic surge by dou­bling its vote share to near­ly 24% in the Sep­tem­ber 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, secur­ing sec­ond place and 48 seats in the 169-seat Stort­ing par­lia­ment. The anti-immi­gra­tion plat­form led by Sylvi Listhaug res­onat­ed with vot­ers con­cerned about ris­ing liv­ing costs, reflect­ing what the BBC described as broad­er Euro­pean gains by right-wing pop­ulists. This dra­mat­ic increase fol­lows a pat­tern across the region, where Euro­pean right-wing pop­ulist par­ties are adopt­ing left-wing eco­nom­ic poli­cies to broad­en their appeal among work­ing-class vot­ers frus­trat­ed with gov­ern­ment aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures, with par­ties from Swe­den to Greece call­ing for high­er wel­fare ben­e­fits, sub­si­dies, and pro­tec­tion­ism along­side their anti-immi­gra­tion stances.

These Scan­di­na­vian par­ties demon­strate the GNCA’s strat­e­gy of com­bin­ing cul­tur­al con­ser­vatism with selec­tive eco­nom­ic pop­ulism. The Wall Street Jour­nal report­ed that par­ties from Swe­den to Greece are aban­don­ing tra­di­tion­al pro-mar­ket posi­tions in favor of high­er wel­fare ben­e­fits and pro­tec­tion­ism while main­tain­ing anti-immi­gra­tion stances, with Ger­many’s AfD attract­ing 33% of blue-col­lar vot­ers in Euro­pean Par­lia­ment elec­tions. Swe­den Democ­rats have imple­ment­ed dis­tinct­ly nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive cli­mate poli­cies, scrap­ping Swe­den’s 2030 inter­im emis­sion tar­gets while bet­ting on nuclear pow­er and forests, cut­ting flight tax­es despite emis­sions increas­es, and slash­ing the off­shore wind pipeline by 90 per­cent. MEP Char­lie Weimers launched a peti­tion seek­ing to ban hijabs for EU insti­tu­tion civ­il ser­vants, claim­ing the mea­sure would rein­force impar­tial­i­ty while crit­ics called it an Islam­o­pho­bic dis­trac­tion from real chal­lenges fac­ing Europeans.

Exter­nal References:

• Swe­den Democ­rats — Wikipedia
• The Rise of Swe­den Democ­rats: Islam, Pop­ulism and the End of Swedish Excep­tion­al­ism — Brook­ings Institution
• Nor­way’s Youth Grav­i­tates to the Right, Elec­tion Shows — The Euro­pean Conservative

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