
Politics and policies
The minority policy of today is all about allowing and supporting the minorities to maintain and live their own culture and protecting them against any discrimination.
In both Germany and Denmark, there is political consensus on the basic features of minority policy for the Danish minority. It is also usually based on unanimous decisions across all party lines.
The goal of the minority's political work is equality with the majority population. This means, among other things, that we collect the same subsidies for our school children, users of our cultural programmes, etc. as the public sector pays for an equivalent German citizen.
In the Danish-German minority policy, there is broad agreement that minorities sometimes need special privileges to be able to participate in society on equal terms. This is reflected in the fact that the political party of the Danish minority is exempt from the current 5% threshold for state and national elections in Germany.
Until the minority party, SSW, was founded in 1948, SSF was responsible for the political representation of the entire minority and stood for election in Schleswig-Holstein. Today, the organisation is responsible for political contact work with the Danish Parliament and government in Copenhagen, federal politics in Berlin and European politics in Brussels.