Denmark: municipalities push a new Danish-language model as government tightens integration

Denmark's local-government association proposed a reworked language-education model focused on practical everyday and workplace language, cutting bureaucracy and extending access from 5 to 10 years. In parallel the government is abolishing the National Council on Integration and re-examining 5,000 disability-pension cases in designated housing areas.

The "Danish model" remains the reference point UK centre-right commentators invoke on tough-but-mainstream integration; the municipal-led language reform is a constructive counterpoint to the enforcement measures.