(AFP) Denmark’s strict migration policies have slowly spread across Europe and the country will now push for harsher EU-wide regulations during its upcoming EU presidency, including on asylum handling and legal appeals.
Migration policy “is linked to security, that is to say that we need a Europe that is safer, more stable and robust, and that isn’t really the case if we don’t control the flows to Europe,” Denmark’s European Affairs Minister Marie Bjerre said as she presented the country’s priorities for its EU presidency, which it takes over from Poland on July 1.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hopes to build EU consensus on externalising asylum procedures outside Europe, and restricting the scope of rulings from the European Court of Human Rights.
She set the tone during a recent visit to Berlin.
