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"Mr President, allow me first of all to emphasise that, in the referendum on the Edinburgh Agreement in 1993, the Danish people declined to participate in EU cooperation on legal issues, and Denmark is not, therefore, bound by any legal obligations to allow the EU to decide which refugees are to be received by Denmark. And one cannot in all decency receive money from the EU if one will not also allow the EU to decide which refugees are to be allocated to which countries. I think it is the individual countries’ responsibility to finance their refugee policies themselves and, for that reason alone, I have to vote against this report. On Danish television, representatives of the High Commission for Refugees in Geneva have expressed the view that only one in ten asylum seekers are genuine applicants. If, as in Denmark, the majority of applicants are given asylum or residence permits, then legitimate refugees are left in the lurch. Denmark offers the world’s highest level of financial aid to refugees and therefore attracts many who are merely economic refugees. And that is not what the Convention on Refugees is about. I nonetheless agree with Mrs Frahm about one thing, namely that EUR 26 million is far, far too low a level. In Denmark alone, the level of aid is EUR 2 billion per year so that the present little fund is of absolutely no effect. We therefore think we need to manage the whole issue of apportioning and prioritising our efforts concerning refugees in a far more rational way."@en1
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