The European Court of Justice ruled that Denmark’s 2018 "ghetto law" can lead to discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and left it to Danish courts to decide whether the numerical "non‑Western" threshold breaches EU equal‑treatment rules after a challenge over Mjølnerparken.The law bars areas with more than 50 percent non‑Western residents and triggers demolitions, forced relocations or sales and a plan to cut public housing by 60 percent in listed areas, measures that have already displaced more than 1,000 people in Mjølnerparken.Plaintiffs led by Majken Felle and campaigners including Systemic Justice welcomed the ECJ guidance, legal scholars such as Kirsten Ketscher say Danish courts must now test the law under EU directives, residents like Ezzedine Azzam called the decision a victory and former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen criticized the ruling.