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*Mette Frederiksen and her unlikely partner in a joint statement:* Will protect Europe's Christian cultural heritage
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The message from Meloni and Frederiksen is aimed not least at European voters, DR's analyst assesses.
Mette Frederiksen continues her collaboration with Italy's right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. (Photo: © Yiannis Kourtoglou, Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix) 28 minutes ago
Denmark's Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen (S), now asserts that Europe is built on a Christian cultural heritage, and she is ready to protect it.
This comes in a joint statement with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
- We both acknowledge Europe's Christian cultural heritage and wish to protect it. We expect people who come to our countries and want to make Europe their home to respect European values, and not impose on us a way of life we do not want, the joint statement reads, which Mette Frederiksen has posted on Facebook.
Meloni and Mette Frederiksen also issued a joint letter to EU leaders when large migrant flows from Morocco hit the Spanish exclave Ceuta just over a week ago.
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'Will not accept uncontrolled migration'
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Giorgia Meloni is the leader of the nationalist right-wing party Fratelli d'Italia, which means "Brothers of Italy" in Danish. In her Facebook post, Mette Frederiksen also writes that many are surprised by the close collaboration between the two, given their different political standpoints.
- We are certainly not in agreement on everything, she writes, but then also outlines a number of similarities:
- We are the only two female government leaders in the EU. One leads a large country in the south. The other a small country in the north. But we are united in the desire to take care of Europe, writes Mette Frederiksen.
And the desire to take care of Europe is about limiting immigration.
- We will not accept uncontrolled migration to Europe. And we have taken the lead on a strict immigration policy. Both at home and in Europe.
- No one can deny that illegal migration has had negative consequences for our societies. Rising crime, pressure on our welfare systems, and a weakening of public trust.
- It is particularly serious when illegal migrants, who have no right to be in our countries, commit serious crime, engage in drug trafficking, or commit sexual assaults, writes Mette Frederiksen.
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No new proposals
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The two leaders, however, do not bring any new concrete proposals to the table, but point to familiar things.
This concerns the deportation of criminal immigrants and the establishment of a reception center for asylum seekers outside Europe.
- Together, we have shifted the balance point regarding criminal foreigners in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights. So that more people must now be deported! And the next step? It is that departure centers in third countries and other innovative solutions outside Europe must be implemented. And we are working hard on it, they write.
Meloni and Frederiksen also stress, however, that it is not enough for immigrants to obey the law. They must also respect the values of the countries they come to.
- Respect for our laws must go hand in hand with respect for European values. This applies to illegal migrants, but also to the millions of foreigners who legally reside in our countries and in Europe, they write.
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