The prime minister places Frederiksen pursued a “zero refugee” coverage since he climbed energy in 2019.
The Danish authorities accredited a “traditionally” low variety of asylum questions final yr, he mentioned.
The Nordic nation granted asylum to 864 folks in 2024. In whole, 309 got here from Syria, 130 got here from Eritrea and one other 130 got here from Afghanistan.
The solely time within the final 40 years wherein the annual determine was decrease was in 2020, when the blocking measures had been in pressure because of the Covid-19 pandemic, in response to the Minister of Immigration Kaare Dybvad Bek.
The minister mentioned that the lower was decreased to the “inflexible asylum coverage” pursued by the Prime Minister places Frederiksen.
Speaking with TV 2, he added that no extra folks ought to come to Denmark than “the corporate can handle”.
FrederiKsen mentioned he wished to scale back asylum purposes within the Nordic nation to “zero” after successful on an anti-immigration platform in 2019.
The chief of the nation, which belongs to the Social Democratic Party on the central left, lately warned the “left” of Europe which have to be more durable for immigration if it desires to cease the rise in the proper components all through the continent.
Denmark has launched more and more rigorous immigration insurance policies within the final ten years.
In 2021, the nation accredited a regulation that permits immigrants to be transferred to asylum facilities in accomplice international locations. The resolution was sentenced on the time by the European Commission.
