Denmark plans to limit 'non-western' residents in disadvantaged areas

Interior ministry's proposed limit of 30% part of bill to crack down further on poor neighbourhoods

Denmark has announced plans to crack down further on disadvantaged neighbourhoods by reducing the number of non-western" residents, scrapping the controversial term ghetto" in its proposed legislation.

In the bill - a review of existing legislation on combatting parallel societies" - the interior ministry proposed that the share of residents of non-western" origin in each neighbourhood be limited to a maximum of 30% within 10 years.