https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Danish Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) has resumed cases relating to persons from Syria, which were paused after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December last year. https://www.thelocal.dk/20250702/danish-authorities-end-freeze-on-syrian-asylum-appeals Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:10:39 +0200 danish-authorities-end-freeze-on-syrian-asylum-appeals The Danish Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) paused cases relating to persons from Syria after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December, and has now extended that decision. https://www.thelocal.dk/20250120/danish-refugee-agency-extends-freeze-on-syrian-cases-after-regime-change Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:12:44 +0100 danish-refugee-agency-extends-freeze-on-syrian-cases-after-regime-change A group of EU immigration hawks, including Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, held talks ahead of a summit of the bloc's leaders on Thursday -- the second consecutive gathering of its kind -- upping pressure on Brussels to boost migrant returns. https://www.thelocal.dk/20241219/danish-pm-discusses-status-of-syrian-refugees-ahead-of-eu-summit Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:59:24 +0100 danish-pm-discusses-status-of-syrian-refugees-ahead-of-eu-summit The Danish Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) has paused 69 cases relating to persons from Syria after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. https://www.thelocal.dk/20241209/danish-refugee-agency-puts-syrian-cases-on-hold-after-assad-ouster Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:16:57 +0100 danish-refugee-agency-puts-syrian-cases-on-hold-after-assad-ouster Denmark said on Friday it had repatriated a mother and her eight-year-old son, the child of a dead Islamic State jihadist, from a Syrian detention camp. https://www.thelocal.dk/20241025/denmark-repatriates-woman-and-son-from-syrian-detention-camp Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:28:55 +0200 denmark-repatriates-woman-and-son-from-syrian-detention-camp The Danish supreme court, Højesteretten, yesterday ruled that an eight-year-old boy, who has been trapped since 2019 in the al-Roj prisoner camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, should be offered evacuation and support by the foreign ministry. https://www.thelocal.dk/20240830/danish-supreme-court-orders-evacuation-of-child-from-syrian-camp Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:26:58 +0200 danish-supreme-court-orders-evacuation-of-child-from-syrian-camp A mother and her two children are to be offered evacuation from a Kurdish-run prison camp in northeastern Syria, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230512/denmark-to-evacuate-mother-and-two-children-from-syrian-prison-camp Fri, 12 May 2023 19:33:11 +0200 denmark-to-evacuate-mother-and-two-children-from-syrian-prison-camp Only one of the three parties in Denmark’s coalition government has stated it wants to repatriate women with national connections to Denmark from Kurdish-run prison camps in Syria. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230329/danish-government-split-over-repatriation-of-women-and-children-from-syria Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:55:17 +0200 danish-government-split-over-repatriation-of-women-and-children-from-syria The Danish supreme court, Højesteret, has overruled a 2020 decision to revoke the citizenship of a Danish-Iranian woman who travelled to Syria in support of the Islamic State (Isis) terror group. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230322/danish-supreme-court-overturns-decision-to-revoke-citizenship-from-woman-who-supported-isis Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:05:46 +0100 danish-supreme-court-overturns-decision-to-revoke-citizenship-from-woman-who-supported-isis Syrian women in Denmark who saw their residence permits revoked because authorities decided they no longer qualified for asylum could be allowed to remain in the country. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230111/denmark-to-change-approach-on-deportation-cases-for-young-syrian-women Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:58:15 +0100 denmark-to-change-approach-on-deportation-cases-for-young-syrian-women Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says the new government is yet to finalise its position on the issue of Danish children who remain at prison camps in Syria. https://www.thelocal.dk/20221222/could-danish-foreign-minister-rasmussen-change-stance-over-children-in-syria Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:24:21 +0100 could-danish-foreign-minister-rasmussen-change-stance-over-children-in-syria Immigration authorities in Denmark sometimes rule in contradiction of their own report on security in Syria when assessing the asylum claims of refugees, critics say. https://www.thelocal.dk/20221115/danish-authorities-criticised-for-defying-own-report-on-syrian-asylum-claims Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:39:48 +0100 danish-authorities-criticised-for-defying-own-report-on-syrian-asylum-claims A large number of refugees from Syria who had their asylum status in Denmark revoked have since seen those decisions overturned, according to official figures. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220613/denmark-reverses-residence-decisions-for-hundreds-of-syrian-refugees Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:32:20 +0200 denmark-reverses-residence-decisions-for-hundreds-of-syrian-refugees A total of 2,095 applications for asylum were registered by Denmark in 2021, less than 10 percent of the number who came to the country for protection in 2015. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220127/minister-praises-low-number-of-denmark-asylum-applications-in-2021 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:27:25 +0100 minister-praises-low-number-of-denmark-asylum-applications-in-2021 Denmark faced the ire of European Union parliamentarians on Wednesday for its policy of sending some Syrian refugees back to the Damascus area and revoking their asylum status. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220113/eu-politicians-criticise-denmark-over-return-policy-for-syrian-refugees Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:34:00 +0100 eu-politicians-criticise-denmark-over-return-policy-for-syrian-refugees Bilal Alkale's family is among the hundred or so Syrian refugees in Denmark whose lives are on hold amid an insufferable legal limbo -- their temporary residency permits have been revoked but they can't be deported. Now, they have no rights. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211203/i-cant-go-back-syrian-refugees-in-denmark-face-limbo-after-status-revoked Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:19:50 +0100 i-cant-go-back-syrian-refugees-in-denmark-face-limbo-after-status-revoked Danish prosecutors on Tuesday requested a 54-million-euro fine against a company accused of violating an EU fuel embargo against Syria, as well as two years' jail for its chief executive. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211130/danish-prosecutors-demand-prison-over-companys-fuel-sales-to-syria Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:06:40 +0100 danish-prosecutors-demand-prison-over-companys-fuel-sales-to-syria The Danish refugee appeals board has overturned the immigration authority’s decision to repatriate Syrian refugees from Damascus in 43 percent of cases, according to a newspaper report. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211126/danish-refugee-board-overturns-decisions-to-send-home-syrians Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:00:37 +0100 danish-refugee-board-overturns-decisions-to-send-home-syrians A Danish fuel supplier went on trial Tuesday, accused of violating EU sanctions against Syria by delivering fuel used by Russian warplanes in the war-torn country. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211026/danish-company-in-court-for-violating-eu-syria-sanctions Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:17:39 +0200 danish-company-in-court-for-violating-eu-syria-sanctions A petition demanding that Denmark stop its controversial policy of revoking residency of some Syrian refugees on Tuesday got the required number of signatures to be submitted to parliament. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211019/danish-petition-asks-lawmakers-to-end-syrian-repatriation-policy Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:16:59 +0200 danish-petition-asks-lawmakers-to-end-syrian-repatriation-policy