Denmark’s stance no help to global refugee crisis

Bleak future: Refugees at the refugee tent camp in Thisted, northern Jutland, Denmark. — EPA

LAST August, I wrote an article for The Guardian under the headline: “Refugees should head for Denmark – here are five reasons why”. It created a media storm here in Denmark; within 24 hours I had appeared on every national broadcast media.

On the political TV programme Deadline, I was confronted by the host: “Do you not acknowledge that a majority of the Danish voters are in favour of a strict asylum policy?”