Danish ‘Ghetto’ Law Risks Being Ethnic Discrimination, Top EU Court Warns
Banners reading 'No to forced relocation' and 'Our homes are not for sale' on a residential building at a housing estate in Copenhagen.
Photographer: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images
The European Union’s top court warned that Denmark’s so-called ghetto law aimed at cutting the proportion of immigrants in inner-city areas may amount to ethnic discrimination.
The Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday that the controversial housing rules could give rise to both direct and indirect discrimination based on ethnic origin — but told national judges to decided whether it goes too far.