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Denmark launches anti-refugee ads campaign

Xinhua, September 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Danish government Monday launched an advertising campaign in foreign newspapers aimed at deterring refugees from coming to the country.

According to the Danish Immigration Service, the first advert that publicizes Denmark's recent welfare cuts was published Monday in four different Lebanese newspapers.

The advert, entitled "Denmark has decided to tighten the regulations concerning refugees in a number of areas," lists seven measures refugees and migrants should take into account if they decide to head for Denmark, including the new cut of social benefits, no possibility of family reunification during the first year, and quick repatriation of rejected asylum seekers.

Apart from meeting the language requirements, foreign nationals can only be granted a permanent residence permit after five years at the earliest.

The ads are printed as the first wave of refugees began arriving in southern Zealand of Denmark from Austria and Germany over the weekend.

"We are in a special position in Europe and in Denmark, and a special situation requires special solution," Denmark's Minister for Integration and Housing Inger Stoejberg was cited as saying by Danish news agency Ritzau.

"But we have always said that we do not want to be part of a common European asylum policy. Not even a temporary one," she reaffirmed.

Official data shows that the number of asylum seekers in Denmark doubled in 2014 as compared to the previous year, and Denmark took in the sixth highest number of asylum applications in 2014, when measured per capita. Endit