|
Denmark seeks revision of UN refugee convention
[Beirut Daily Star] Copenhagen: Denmark's centre right-wing prime minister on Sunday said he would seek a revision of the UN Refugee Convention, as Europe faces its worst migration crisis since World War II."If this continues or gets worse... we will get to the point where we'll have to talk -- and Denmark won't be able to do it alone -- about adjusting the rules of the game," Lars Lokke Rasmussen told TV2 television. The Danish premier, whose Venstre party rules with the backing of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DPP) in parliament, said the 1951 treaty should be revised in order to clarify the rights of refugees in the first country they fled to. "If someone seeking shelter from war has lived for two or three years in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , should he then go to Europe and seek asylum there? As they stand today, the rules allow people to do that, but we are going to have a discussion about that," he told the Danish television channel. The prime minister believes the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , of which Denmark is a member, should lead an effort to modify the convention, which came into law just six years after World War II ended. The Danish government's policies on migrants have triggered global controversy, most recently with a plan to seize migrants' valuables and cash. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-28 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=440071 |