‘We can do it alone': Danish PM on foreign-based refugee expulsion centre

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Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is set to bring up a mooted new form of expulsion centre for rejected asylum seekers when the subject of migrants and refugees is discussed at this week’s EU summit in Brussels.

The issue is one of a number to be discussed by government leaders in meetings in the Belgian capital on Thursday and Friday.

Rasmussen is set to speak about a project, already discussed by Denmark and Austria, to establish an expulsion centre for rejected asylum seekers in an “unattractive location outside of the EU”.

The PM wants more countries to support his idea, which has so-far only received the backing of Austria’s nationalist populist government, but said it could become a reality regardless.

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