COPENHAGEN: Spurning scathing international criticism, Danish lawmakers on Thursday gave a final nod to drastic reforms curbing asylum rights as legal and human rights experts castigated Copenhagen for turning its back on its international commitments.

Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s minority right-wing government, supported in parliament by an anti-immigration far-right party that has for 15 years dictated increasingly restrictive immigration policies, already has enough support for its bill to win a January 26 parliamentary vote.

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