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Denmark’s Prime Minister Echoes Trump’s Anti-Migration Rhetoric—Is She the New Face of European Conservatism?

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Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is turning heads across Europe — and not for the reasons you’d expect from a center-left leader. In a bold move that’s raising eyebrows both inside and outside the EU, she’s echoed the kind of rhetoric more commonly associated with Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance, calling mass migration a “threat to daily life.”

“I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe,” Frederiksen said, striking a chord with what Vance recently stated at the Munich Security Conference. “No matter if you look at statistics on crimes or if you look at problems on the labor market, insecurity in local communities, it is the most vulnerable who experience the consequences.”

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