The Danish government, with the support of the largest opposition party, wants to exempt Ukrainian refugees from the controversial "jewelry law".

The “Jewelry Act” enacted by Denmark earlier allows the confiscation of valuables worth more than 10,000 Danish kroner from asylum seekers upon entering Denmark. For example, Syrian refugees were allowed to keep their valuables, such as gold and jewelry, up to a value of 10,000 kroner upon entering Denmark, and then anything exceeding that was confiscated by the Danish authorities under the law, which sparked controversy at the time.

Now, with Ukrainian refugees entering Denmark, the ruling Social Democratic Party and the Venstre Liberal Party, the largest opposition party, want to exempt Ukrainians fleeing to Denmark from the jewelry law, which was not applied to Ukrainians who entered Denmark after the Russian attack on Ukraine - according to a statement by the Danish Immigration Service to the newspaper Ekstra Bladet.

Rasmus Stoklund, the foreign affairs spokesman for the ruling Social Democratic Party, told the same website that the government and parliament are considering a way to change the basis for Ukrainians remaining in Denmark so that they are not considered refugees. In this way, they will not be covered by the Jewels Act. Mads Vogeld, the foreign affairs spokesman for the Liberal Party, agrees that Ukrainians should not be included in the law. He told the newspaper Ekstra Bladet, "We are working to enact a special law so that we do not participate in the refugee problem at all," considering that Ukrainians are different from Syrians, for example, because Denmark is the immediate region of Ukraine, while the Jewels Act takes into account refugees passing through countries before Denmark.

Neither of the official spokespeople for the two parties mentioned clearly stated whether the exemption would apply only to Ukrainian citizens fleeing to Denmark or to foreign nationals in Ukraine as well.