It has been more expensive to be a dane.
the Fee to apply for citizenship was last year raised from 1,200 to 3.800, and a part of the price is 600 dollars for grundlovsceremonien, where there is a requirement for handshake.
The typing of the aliens and integration, Mattias Tesfaye (S), in a response to the Danish Parliament.
Under the previous Left government, the Danish Parliament adopted in december 2018 the much debated rule of the handshake by grundlovsceremonien, as by, among others, The Radical Left has been called tend towards symbolic policy.
And it is also the people’s udlændingeordfører, Andreas Steenberg, which now is out with symbol-the rake.
– I think it is wasting people’s time and money with the stupid tend towards symbolic policy. The vast majority, if not all, have no problem with giving a handshake. But now they must use the time, waiting for their citizenship and pay 600 crowns to give a handshake. It is simply too stupid, he says to DR.
He acknowledges that most can easily manage to pay 600 crowns and give a handshake, but believes that the law is to increase the bureaucracy.
– It is the bureaucracy, which costs money and makes you have to pay 600 crowns. The most obvious would be to help keep a ceremony that doesn’t really make a difference, says Andreas Steenberg.
– now When you think it is a waste of time and money, could you find, from the radical to demand of the government, to abolish the ceremonies?
– Yes, it will we take up when we need to negotiate with the government again. It is one of our want, making it more sensible to be able to become a citizen.
– It is fine enough to be able to Danish, learn about Denmark, and that one should not be criminal, but that people have to pay themselves and use the time to go through it here, I also think it is far-fetched, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
Although the handshake ceremony has met with resistance from the socialist hinterland, has aliens and integratiosministeren held fast.
– We are pleased to hold the ceremonies, and I call on all mayors to have purchased pretzels and Fax, Fitness, hoist the flag and invite the local paper and make a party out it, said Mattias Tesfaye earlier in the year.
Also the party’s udlændingeordfører, Rasmus Stoklund, is a supporter of both the ceremony and the price.
– It is not just on the drawing board to abolish them now. Now we will see how they work in practice, and if it works well, and it is so festive, which I at least think it’s going to be, so I can’t see any reason to go in time to eliminate them, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
– if you Think that 600 dollars is a fair price for a handshake?
– It is not only for hand pressure, you pay. There is, of course, because there is no work with to arrange the handshake ceremonies. So I think it is quite reasonable, that it is those who are applying for citizenship, which will bear the cost and not taxpayers, says Rasmus Stoklund.
