(European Conservative) More than half a year has passed since Denmark began offering €27,000 for every Syrian refugee who voluntarily chooses to return to their home country after it was deemed “safe” with the fall of the Assad regime. However, the scheme is failing to produce results.
Since Copenhagen launched the remigration plan back in December — along with suspending asylum for any new refugees claiming to come from Syria — only 120 of them reportedly took the deal and left Denmark on their own.
That’s not even a dent in the 35,000-strong community, most of whom arrived at the beginning of the migrant crisis in 2015-2016. If all of them accepted the cash, it would cost taxpayers nearly €1 billion. But massive remigration remains a distant dream as the vast majority would rather stay in Europe.
