It struck me as being a dog and pony show to try to show that something is being done, but it doesn’t seem to be the most effective of ways to do whatever they are claiming. But I’m wondering where they are doing this at CPH as I’ve found no one yet who has seen this done at the places mentioned in the article nor at passport control.

As someone who isn’t Danish nor a subject resident of Denmark, I am curious what they could do if I just dismiss the demand for a CPR number.

CPH isn’t staffed in such a way as to make swarming encirclement all that easy. And where it could take place, cameras are likely to be around.

Huge numbers of people living in the EU seek employment opportunities outside of the EU too. And we both ought to know that merely being a resident of Denmark doesn’t necessarily make the person able to legally work in another EU country beside where they have residency. Lots of residents of one EU country can’t just legally start work in every other EU country beside that which granted them residency without jumping through some hoops (if even able or allowed to jump through the hoops to do so in the here and now).

I am very curious to know the targeting approach being used by the Danish authorities in these checks. My bet is that most flight passenger traffic in the current quarter from CPH to warm weather EU islands have not been going on such flights and back seeking work at the warm-weather EU island destination.

Are they targeting charter package tourist flights from warm and hot weather places to CPH? Those flights may be the richest targets, whether from Spanish islands or non-EU Thailand or other warm places.

I know what the proponents of this action claim they are doing by way of this action at CPH, but it still strikes me as being a dog and pony show with a dog whistle of sort, especially as this is anything but a highly effective approach for anything but PR purposes.

The burden of proof to show social security benefits misuse should rest upon the state and be the same regardless of intra-EU international travel or not. Given intra-EU cooperation is more of a given than cooperation beyond the EU, hunting after travelers coming from beyond the EU/Schengen area seems to be of at least as questionable effectiveness as international intra-EU travel, no less so as the travelers can claim to be doing the same thing as those traveling internationally within the EU.

The checks have more than zero relevance to people using CPH, including people like me who have no claim history to any Danish unemployment benefits. Absent evidence of wrongdoing, people being targeted in a law enforcement fishing expedition at CPH is a concern even for those of us not using Danish unemployment benefits. If I’m asked for a CPR at CPH, who is going to ask and where? And what’s the consequence for people like me telling those asking for it to go pound sand when asked for a CPR?

CPH has become a massive mess for travel between the Schengen and non-Schengen area within the past couple of years, and any governmental law enforcement dragnet/fishing expedition action that further slows down CPH passengers is not welcome by me.

Indeed.

I come into CPH via passport control there a few more times this month and again next month, but I doubt that I will get asked since I’ve yet to observe anyone subjected to this there and my flight pattern is more or less static at this time of the year.

Perhaps this is a way to get people in Denmark to use Swedish airports more.