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Denmark’s government continues to work on a plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, despite the British government’s plan to do so being stopped by the country’s highest court.
“The asylum system does not work and is deeply inhumane. The government is therefore working for new solutions. Fortunately, more and more countries agree and most recently we have seen positive developments from both Italy and Germany,” writes Denmark’s minister responsible for migration Kaare Dybvad Bek (Social Democracy) to the Ritzau news agency.
Rwanda is not living up to its human rights obligations, a unanimous panel of judges in the High Court in London found. It is not considered a safe enough country to place people in need of protection.
The Danish plans are basically on hold for other reasons. The Social Democrats, which launched the plans back in 2019, are not fully heard within today’s broad government coalition, where the bourgeois Moderates are opposed. But the work is progressing, according to S Minister Dybvad Bek.
Italy recently concluded an agreement with Albania to establish facilities where asylum seekers can be received on the other side of the Adriatic Sea. It is the first time that an EU country enters into this type of agreement with a country outside the Union. Germany has also opened up to using a third country in the reception.