Getting Tougher

Denmark Though only 6.8% of Denmark's 5.4 million are foreign-born, immigration was a key issue in this month's election. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's coalition won easily, thanks in part to policies that have cut asylum seekers by 74%. The right-wing Danish People's Party, traditionally an ally of the government, wants to go further by stripping citizenship from naturalized Danes found guilty of a crime and revoking foreigners' right to vote in local elections.

France Twelve hundred Muslim clerics are now encouraged to attend courses in French language and culture and secular law. Nicolas Sarkozy, a likely presidential...