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Denmark Now Needs Skilled Foreigners to Rescue Growth
GDP growth could be stuck at 1.5% if country can't lure more engineers and science majors
A Lego brick figurine of Emmet Brickowoski, a character from "The Lego Movie", stands in the reception area at the headquarters of Lego A/S in Billund, Denmark, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015.
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Denmark is lagging behind its neighbors when it comes to economic growth and it needs skilled foreigners to catch up.
The problem is that Denmark has transformed itself into not a very welcoming place over the past decade with the region's strictest immigration laws.