DenmarkDanmark og omverdenen 7 · Denmark and the wider world
In 2015 there was a referendum on changing the justice and home affairs opt-out (retsforbeholdet) into an opt-in arrangement. What was the result?
In the exam (Danish)
I 2015 var der folkeafstemning om at lave retsforbeholdet om til en tilvalgsordning. Hvad blev resultatet?
- aA majority voted yes, and the opt-out was changedEt flertal stemte ja, og retsforbeholdet blev lavet om
- bA majority voted no, and the opt-out was not changedEt flertal stemte nej, og retsforbeholdet blev ikke lavet omCorrect answer
Why?
A majority voted no. That is why Denmark still does not take part in most of the EU's cooperation on justice and home affairs, for example asylum policy.
Translated with AI. In the exam the question is in Danish, as shown above.
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Folketinget vil lade et internationalt samarbejde som EU overtage noget af Danmarks selvbestemmelse. Et flertal stemmer ja, men det er færre end 5/6 af medlemmerne. Regeringen holder fast i forslaget. Hvad skal der så ske? — Der skal holdes en folkeafstemning
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Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.
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