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IMMIGRATION

Danes more likely to get jobs than non-EU citizens

New Eurostat figures show that Denmark has the seventh highest gap in employment between citizens and foreigners from outside of the EU.

Published: 30 July 2014 14:03 CEST
Danes more likely to get jobs than non-EU citizens
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Non-EU citizens are more likely to find work in 15 other European countries than in Denmark, new Eurostat figures released on Wednesday show.
 
Denmark’s employment rate for non-EU citizens in 2013 was 58.0 percent, slightly above the EU28 average of 56.1 percent but below the rate in 15 of the 25 countries that provided data. The employment rate for Danish citizens was 76.7 percent. 
 
The -18.7 percent difference between the employment rate for Danish nationals and that of non-EU citizens was the seventh biggest gap in the EU. Sweden saw the biggest employment gap between nationals and non-EU citizens with a -31.1 percent difference. 
 
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Denmark’s overall employment numbers were above the EU average for citizens, all foreigners, citizens of other EU Member States and non-EU citizens. 
 
The 76.7 percent of Danish citizens who were employed in 2013 represented the fifth highest number in the EU, following Sweden (81.3 percent), Germany (78.7 percent), the Netherlands (77.3 percent) and Austria (76.8 percent). Greece had the lowest percentage of employed citizens at 53.4 percent. 
 
As a whole, the unemployment rate for non-EU citizens in the EU28 was more than twice the level for citizens of the reporting country. 

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CRIME

Germany mulls expulsions to Afghanistan after knife attack

Germany said Tuesday it was considering allowing deportations to Afghanistan, after an asylum seeker from the country injured five and killed a police officer in a knife attack.

Published: 4 June 2024 14:50 CEST
Germany mulls expulsions to Afghanistan after knife attack

Officials had been carrying out an “intensive review for several months… to allow the deportation of serious criminals and dangerous individuals to Afghanistan”, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told journalists.

“It is clear to me that people who pose a potential threat to Germany’s security must be deported quickly,” Faeser said.

“That is why we are doing everything possible to find ways to deport criminals and dangerous people to both Syria and Afghanistan,” she said.

Deportations to Afghanistan from Germany have been completely stopped since the Taliban retook power in 2021.

But a debate over resuming expulsions has resurged after a 25-year-old Afghan was accused of attacking people with a knife at an anti-Islam rally in the western city of Mannheim on Friday.

A police officer, 29, died on Sunday after being repeatedly stabbed as he tried to intervene in the attack.

Five people taking part in a rally organised by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam, were also wounded.

Friday’s brutal attack has inflamed a public debate over immigration in the run up to European elections and prompted calls to expand efforts to expel criminals.

READ ALSO: Tensions high in Mannheim after knife attack claims life of policeman

The suspect, named in the media as Sulaiman Ataee, came to Germany as a refugee in March 2013, according to reports.

Ataee, who arrived in the country with his brother at the age of only 14, was initially refused asylum but was not deported because of his age, according to German daily Bild.

Ataee subsequently went to school in Germany, and married a German woman of Turkish origin in 2019, with whom he has two children, according to the Spiegel weekly.

Per the reports, Ataee was not seen by authorities as a risk and did not appear to neighbours at his home in Heppenheim as an extremist.

Anti-terrorism prosecutors on Monday took over the investigation into the incident, as they looked to establish a motive.

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