Minister for Integration (Denmark)
Minister for Immigration and Integration is a Danish ministerial office. The office was created by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on 27 November 2001 when he formed the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I after the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, in which refugees, immigration, and integration of people from non-western countries had been important issues.
Image: Bertel Haarder, undervisningsminister och nordisk samarbetsminister Danmark
Image: Søren Pind 2017 (cropped)
Image: Karen Hækkerup, pressefoto
Image: Statsminister Helle Thorning Schmidt, Annette Vilhelmsen og Holger K. Nielsen (cropped to Annette Vilhelmsen)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet
After the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was able form a government coalition of his own Liberal Party Venstre and the Conservative People's Party. It was a minority government with the parliamentary support of the Danish People's Party. The resulting cabinet is called the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I. Apart from the EU Presidency in 2002 during which the enlargement of the European Union was decided, the main issues for the cabinet were the so-called tax freeze, which ended the upward drift in municipal income tax rates, tax cuts, law and order, limiting the number of refugees and immigrants coming to Denmark as well as the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet