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Danish fundraiser brings in 11 million kroner for refugee aid

Thousands of people in Denmark on Sunday donated money to the Danish Refugee Council.

Published: 4 November 2019 12:20 CET
Danish fundraiser brings in 11 million kroner for refugee aid
File photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

The money was raised primarily by volunteers knocking on doors across the country to request donations.

Thousands of volunteers took part in Sunday’s fundraiser, which netted a total of 11 million kroner, Ritzau reports.

“This is a really good result and I promise it will make a vital difference for displaced people,” Danish Refugee Council’s director of global communication and fundraising Annette Spanggaard said.

“I want to say a huge thank you to all the Danes who went out to collect for us today and to those who opened their doors and made a contribution,” she added.

The funds will be used to bolster aid from people fleeing conflicts such as the ongoing situation in Syria.

A similar national fundraiser in 2018 brought in 13 million kroner.

READ ALSO: Danish charity hands out record number of food boxes

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France ‘will not welcome migrants’ from Lampedusa: interior minister

France "will not welcome migrants" from the island, Gérald Darmanin has insisted

Published: 20 September 2023 09:06 CEST
France 'will not welcome migrants' from Lampedusa: interior minister

France will not welcome any migrants coming from Italy’s Lampedusa, interior minister Gérald Darmanin has said after the Mediterranean island saw record numbers of arrivals.

Some 8,500 people arrived on Lampedusa on 199 boats between Monday and Wednesday last week, according to the UN’s International Organisation for
Migration, prompting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to travel there Sunday to announce an emergency action plan.

According to Darmanin, Paris told Italy it was “ready to help them return people to countries with which we have good diplomatic relations”, giving the
example of Ivory Coast and Senegal.

But France “will not welcome migrants” from the island, he said, speaking on French television on Tuesday evening.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called on Italy’s EU partners to share more of the responsibility.

The recent arrivals on Lampedusa equal more than the whole population of the tiny Italian island.

The mass movement has stoked the immigration debate in France, where political parties in the country’s hung parliament are wrangling over a draft law governing new arrivals.

France is expected to face a call from Pope Francis for greater tolerance towards migrants later this week during a high-profile visit to Mediterranean city Marseille, where the pontiff will meet President Emmanuel Macron and celebrate mass before tens of thousands in a stadium.

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