Bassam, 34, noted the ads are “not totally negative” because they say if you learn Danish you’ll have more chance of getting a job.
As the EU struggles with a major migrant crisis, the European Commission has proposed that 120,000 additional asylum seekers should be shared out between members, using binding quotas.
The decision was made without discussion with the Danish government, Hoejbjerg said, adding that there also had been no prior agreement with Sweden.
Allowing the resumption of traffic on ferries and the motorway, Danish police said they had no power to detain refugees.
Police spokesman Lars Forstell on Tuesday said those detained were suspected of illegally transporting migrants across the Oresund bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Malmo, Sweden. More than 3,200 people entered the country from Serbia, a figure that some have said is an underestimate, according to the Guardian.
Some elderly migrants called off their 300-km trek (186 miles) to Copenhagen, the jump-off point for crossings by bus, train or auto to Sweden.
Danish police will no longer try to stop migrants and refugees from transiting through the country to get to Sweden and other Nordic countries, the police chief said Thursday.
“They can choose to go back to their own country and have protection from their government, whereas refugees are literally running for their lives”.
Denmark’s national railway, DSB, said it had stopped all train travel between Denmark and Germany after a police request. To ensure its stand is clear, Denmark’s administration released advertisements in local newspapers that announced significant reductions in the “assistance” extended towards the refugees.
Police tweeted at midday that as many as 30 people had rushed off one of the Rodby trains, but most had been rounded up again.
The refugees had left a school in the southern Danish town of Padborg and started walking north, the spokeswoman said.
“I wish to change that because we can not simply keep up with the present flow”, she said.
Rejected asylum seekers will be expelled “quickly”.
According to the European Union border agency Frontex, a record number of over 340,000 migrants, many fleeing war in their home countries, arrived at European Union borders between January and July 2015.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special representative on migration says it’s “not enough” for countries like the United States and wealthy Persian Gulf states to give money to help Syrian refugees – they must take them in, too. “In light of the huge influx to Europe these days, there is good reason for us to tighten rules and get that effectively communicated”.