The German media has been using "The Danes" as shorthand for the SSW. This is quite wrong. Not only were they set up to ensure representation for the autochthonous Danes of South Schleswig, but also the Friesians. Whereas the Danes have, as some supporters of the CDU haven't hesitated to point out, an identifiable homeland outside the Federal Republic, the North Friesians have nowhere to go. If my memory of the end of the Roman Empire in the West serves me, the Friesians were there first anyway.

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