Denmark has had its fair share of bad press lately.

In British newspaper The Guardian, an opinion cartoon depicting Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen as a Nazi with a pork fetish was a new low in the press coverage of the small kingdom, which normally attracts praise for its happy people and social equality.

Just days ago, the New York Times deemed a new set of policies relating to refuges "cruel." Elsewhere in Scandinavia the same reversal of policies is taking place -- all designed to reverse the image of the Scandinavian countries as welcoming societies.