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None of this justifies a visa ban from the Americans.

A much bigger issue is if Breton (or other EU officials) were placed under US sanctions. This has happened to ICC staff, and it's a huge problem eg to access digital services like email, have a bank account etc. I would not rule it out.
December 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reposted by Etienne le Grand
But “the Danish model”, i.e. what sensible policy wonks admired/desired to copy, was never immigration/asylum restriction. It was *flexicurity*: easy hire/fire + generous unemployment insurance + intensive ALMPs—rights matched by duties (see, e.g., www.aeaweb.org/artic...).
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Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties
(Fall 2022) - Denmark is one of the richest countries in the world and achieves this in combination with low inequality, low unemployment, and high-income security. This performance is often attributed to the Danish labor market model characterized by what has become known as flexicurity. This essay describes and evaluates Danish flexicurity. The Danish experience shows that flexicurity in itself, that is, flexible hiring and firing rules for firms combined with high income security for workers, is insufficient for successful outcomes. The flexicurity policy also needs to include comprehensive active labor market programs (ALMPs) with compulsory participation for recipients of unemployment compensation. Denmark spends more on active labor market programs than any other OECD country. We review theory showing how ALMPs can mitigate adverse selection and moral hazard problems associated with high income security and review empirical evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs from the ongoing Danish policy evaluation, which includes a systematic use of randomized experiments. We also discuss the aptness of flexicurity to meet challenges from globalization, automation, and immigration and the trade-offs that the United States (or other countries) would face in adopting a flexicurity policy.
www.aeaweb.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM