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Denmark says no to refugee distribution proposal

Xinhua, September 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Denmark will not take part in the distribution of the 160,000 asylum seekers proposed by the European Commission, Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing Inger Stoejberg said here on Friday.

European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker earlier this week proposed that EU member states accept 160,000 refugees via a mandatory refugee quota.

Stoejberg was quoted by the Danish news agency Ritzau as saying that the the number of refugees that Denmark has taken was already "very high".

Denmark, due to its opt-out on EU Justice and Home Affairs, is not oblidged to take part in the distribution plan.

Meanwhile, Denmark on Thursday allowed thousands of Syrian refugees to pass through the country on their way to seek asylum in Sweden. Only about 700 of the refugees have registered in Denmark after they arrived from Germany since Sunday.

Tens of thousands of refugees flocked from the Middle East, mainly Syria, to Europe to flee their war-torn homelands.

The refugee crisis is mainly the own making of the United States and some European countries through direct or indirect military intervention in other countries' internal affairs, but they are slow to respond and reluctant to provide asylum for the refugees. Endi