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May. 10, 2021
As Israel s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, bears witness, Denmark plays a special role in Jewish history, thanks to the Danish resistance s successful evacuation of most of the country s Jewish population to Sweden in 1943, during the German occupation.
But there is also a shameful side to the same story. That s because of how Danish officials, both before and during the Nazi occupation, collaborated in returning Jewish refugees back to Germany, and to their deaths.
As the Danish minister of justice, Karl Kristian Steincke, stated in 1937: We will not be inhuman, but we dare not be human, because of the consequences. In this case, it was fear of Denmark’s powerful neighbor to the south.
Jimmie Åkesson said Sweden needs a stricter immigration policy
Credit: Anders Wiklund /TT News Agency
Sweden will follow Denmark by introducing strict immigration controls, the leader of its populist opposition party has promised a week after launching a breakthrough deal with parties likely to take power next year. Denmark was the same way as Sweden, and then it just changed overnight, and that will happen in Sweden too, Jimmie Åkesson said in a rare interview with international media.
Last Sunday, the Sweden Democrats and the three centre-Right parties announced a proposal that for the first time showed them negotiating and setting migration policy together, something Mr Åkesson described as a very important symbol of cooperation.
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Monday, 03 May 2021 08:41 PM MYT
Denmark is expected to exclude the Johnson & Johnson vaccine like it did the AstraZeneca vaccine. Reuters pic
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COPENHAGEN, May 3 Denmark today became the first country to exclude Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 shots from its vaccination programme over a potential link to a rare but serious form of blood clot.
The move comes after the Nordic country last month stopped using AstraZeneca’s vaccine altogether citing similar concerns.
The country’s health authority said in a statement it had found that “the benefits of using the Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect in those who receive the vaccine”.