Denmark's Prime Minister Metter Frederiksen, pictured in Copenhagen in 2024, has won praise abroad for leading a center-left government with stringent rules on asylum. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix Denmark/Reuters

Denmark’s biggest exports include Ozempic , Carlsberg and Lego. But now, European leaders think it has something more valuable to sell: an immigration system tough and effective enough to neuter the hard right and keep mainstream parties in power.

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, has achieved what many center-left governments of recent years have found impossible: getting reelected. In an age when incumbents keep getting hammered at the ballot box, many in Europe are looking to the asylum policies of Frederiksen’s Social Democrats – which won elections i

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