Denmark’s Supreme Court hears appeal over “non-Western” evictions under parallel societies law

Denmark’s Supreme Court has begun hearing an appeal by seven families evicted from a Helsingør housing estate under the 2018 law targeting areas with mostly “non-Western” residents.

• The two-day hearing began on Friday; the families argue their leases were terminated in 2022 because of their or their parents’ origin.
• The EU Court of Justice ruled in December 2025 that a neutral criterion covering many national origins could still be linked to ethnicity.
• The government says the law aims at integration and has argued the “non-Western” classification is unrelated to ethnicity.
• No verdict date has been set; the law requires housing associations to cut public family housing to 40 percent by 2030.