Denmark pursues EU concessions to escape bill for migrant worker welfare
Kobenhavn
THE concessions granted to the UK by the powers in Brussels ahead of its shocking vote to leave the European Union may now be moot, but they haven't been forgotten in Denmark.
Amid the chaos that the so-called Brexit vote has unleashed on the British economy, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen is dead-set on forcing an escape from having to foot the welfare bill for EU workers, a key feature of the bloc's freedom of movement principle.
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