Refugee crisis: Why Scandinavian countries are trying to look bad
February 09, 2016 23:29
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.
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