As Denmark takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union from Poland, it plans on radically overhauling Brussels’ migration policy.
Citing an article from Die Welt, Hungarian portal Mandiner says Denmark will seek to break with policy in terms of how the European Convention on Human Rights interprets the right to asylum.
According to Welt, the EU “legally binds itself” by granting every asylum seeker the right to travel to the EU under the European Convention on Human Rights to await the decision on their application.
No one has ever formally challenged this provision, but Denmark is preparing to do just that. Their presidency began with a letter signed by eight member states calling for a review of the European Convention on Human Rights.
“We need to examine whether, in certain cases, the court has not interpreted the convention in a way that goes beyond its original intentions,” the letter states. Along with Denmark, Italy, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic are signatories.
In May, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that this should not be seen as violating the rule of law. “We are great defenders of the principle, but we also need to be able to make political decisions,” she said.
“Everybody has to recognize that the current asylum system in Europe is broken.”
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen says there is a “big minority” of foreigners refusing to integrate and committing crimes against the European population.
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Under the Danish-Italian proposal, at least criminals would be easier to deport to their countries of origin, and the rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights would not apply if the asylum seekers in question were brought to the EU’s external border using hybrid warfare methods used by Russia or Belarus.
The European Court of Human Rights has so far punished every country that turned back asylum seekers at its borders, as Greece did in 2020, Poland from 2020 to 2023, and Hungary continuously. At the same time, Poland and Finland are still violating EU law by closing their borders with Russia, and Germany is doing the same under the government of Friedrich Merz.
“The impulse to break the taboo is right,” says Die Welt. If the European Convention on Human Rights does not change, then “many citizens may come to believe that their governments cannot act in their interests unless they disregard European law.”
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