Danes must teach refugees to behave better, says Queen

Queen Margrethe II said Danes had to work harder at integrating people, even if that meant putting people’s backs up
Queen Margrethe II said Danes had to work harder at integrating people, even if that meant putting people’s backs up
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The Queen of Denmark has told her subjects that they must stand up to migrants and tell them when their behaviour is not acceptable in the liberal nation.

Queen Margrethe II argues in a much-anticipated book that although immigrants who come to Denmark should not be forced to forget their roots, they must “change some of the soil in the pot”.

The chain-smoking monarch has used her book The Deepest Roots to wade into the country’s debate on immigration and national identity.

“Previously, we thought that by walking the streets of Copenhagen and taking the local buses, you would soon become a Dane. But now it is clear we all have to work much harder integrating people coming here. And that includes sometimes putting people’s