Denmark on Thursday ratcheted up its tough anti-immigration laws by adopting new legislation enabling it to open asylum centres outside Europe where applicants would be sent to live. Asylum seekers would now have to submit an application in person at the Danish border and then be flown to an asylum centre outside Europe while their application is being processed. Denmark would foot the bill but the processing of asylum requests would be carried out by the host country. And Denmark and Rwanda signed a memorandum of understanding in April on asylum and migration cooperation, though the document doesn't specifically cover external asylum processing. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said the law was 'contrary to the principles of international refugee cooperation.'

Source: Daily Mail June 03, 2021 16:22 UTC