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Danish PM calls for stop to economic migrants influx

Xinhua, October 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen on Tuesday called for an end to the influx of economic migrants.

"Denmark has a responsibility to help refugees... but there is a difference between being a refugee and economic migrant. Denmark can never cope with a mass migration that is driven by the desire for a better life," Rasmussen said at the opening of Danish parliament.

He urged the EU to stop the influx, saying it is useless to leave Europe's borders open and only talk about distribution of the people coming in.

"We must address the root of the problem," the prime minister said.

He stressed that refugees who have been granted asylum must come out at work and learn Danish as soon as possible, referring to the fact that not even half of the migrants from non-Western countries are at work.

Rasmussen also said that both the EU and Denmark must require countries from which the refugees come to take back their nationals when they can not get legal residence.

Meanwhile, the prime minister again emphasized that Denmark will remain outside the EU's common immigration and asylum policy, even after the country's referendum on the EU legal reservations. Endit