Critics of Europe's citizenship tests have pointed out that they do not follow a common pattern or they are based on little research as to what questions are needed to distinguish migrants who are willing to assimilate from those who are not. And yet, they have the potential to determine the fate of thousands. Particularly amid the recent influx of migrants into Europe, there has been a renewed focus on a contentious question: How should a test that will help determine whether an individual can acquire citizenship look? [...]
Many of the questions in Denmark's new citizenship test have been criticized as unnecessarily tough or out of touch with the reality of everyday life. After the country revamped its questions to make the test harder, nearly 70 percent of all June applicants failed. [...]
There, more than half the country's citizens age 18 to 24 would fail the citizenship test, a YouGov poll suggested two years ago.
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