Denmark's immigration minister says he gained "valuable insights" on a trip to Nauru to study Australia's controversial offshore asylum seeker processing setup, as Europe seeks ways to fix a dysfunctional immigration system plagued with mass drownings.
In recent years tens of thousands of asylum seekers have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Many also die in overcrowded trucks crossing the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, the United Nations refugee agency says.
