MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — Denmark's social advertisements in a number of Lebanese newspapers aimed to keep would-be asylum seekers away from the country are inaccurate and make readers easily misinterpret the real legislation, Danish Refugee Council told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"We are worried about this kind of information that was sent through papers in Lebanon and other countries, because we do not consider it to be accurate. It is very easy to misunderstand what it says, especially concerning the right to family reunification," Andreas Kamm, the secretary general of the Danish Refugee Council, told Sputnik.
"The Danish legislation is a bit tricky. The former government introduced a new article to the law saying that some people, a few people from Syria, a tiny little group, who are not in troubles individually, have to wait one year before they can reunite with their family in Denmark. But this is a minority," Kamm explained.
"It is very easy to misunderstand the signal sent by this message. Because they also say that you will only be able to be granted a permanent residence after five years. So if you read it, it seems like your family will not be able to go to Denmark together with you for at least five years," Kamm continued.
Whether such messaging has been made on purpose or not is hard to say, but it definitely distorts the picture of the regulations in Denmark, head of the Danish Refugee Council said.
Denmark has a right to opt out of the EU's quota scheme for relocating migrants under its treaty with the European Union, but its Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that his country was prepared to participate in the program.
