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Re: The New Copenhagen Criteria

IDENTIFICATION

20 percent of the Danish population uses 60 percent of the State's collective budget. Proposal #687 of March 12, 2006 - regarding changing the conditions for maintaining civic rights - demands a guide for differentiating between citizens in order to easily and surely identify the above-mentioned 20 percent. The guide sets the following criteria by which the citizens should be sorted.

THE NEW COPENHAGEN CRITERIA

ad 1 : Citizens that have received, over a long period of time, welfare or other social support, with the exception of state pension.
ad 2: Citizens who have willingly bypassed Danish law for the purpose of personal gain, including social fraud, systematic moonlighting, tax evasion, etc.
ad 3 : Drug addicts and those who abuse recreational drugs, alcohol, etc.
ad 4 : People who place excessive strain on the hospital system, far above the average.
ad 5 : People who are incapable of caring for their own children.
ad 6 : People who are out of work for unusually long periods of time. Including pensioners who have been invalided prematurely.
ad 7 : People who have lived on the edge of the law for many years. Those who have often been in contact with the courts, swindlers, criminals, even though they haven't necessarily been convicted.

PARDON/EXEMPTION FROM PUNISHMENT

ad 1 : It isn't enough to live up to a single criterion. It is recommended that at least three criteria are achieved before punishment is meted out.