Yahoo – AFP,
8 Sep 2015
Oslo (AFP) - A Norwegian billionaire who made his fortune in the hotel business offered on Tuesday 5,000 nights in his hotel chain to refugees who do not have a spot in asylum centres.
Hundreds of
migrants walk after leaving the transit zone of the Budapest train
station, on
September 4, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ferenc Isza)
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Oslo (AFP) - A Norwegian billionaire who made his fortune in the hotel business offered on Tuesday 5,000 nights in his hotel chain to refugees who do not have a spot in asylum centres.
"We
are offering 5,000 nights to refugees who need it," Petter Stordalen, who
owns the Nordic Choice Hotels chain, wrote on Twitter.
The migrant
drama unfolding in Europe "concerns absolutely everyone," he told
Norwegian news agency NTB, adding that he would also cover the meal costs for
the refugees who stay in his establishments.
The
Norwegian migration board UDI said it would consider Stordalen's offer if its
centres were overflowing.
Norway
received 2,313 asylum requests in August, most of them from Syrians, Eritreans
and Afghans, the highest number registered in a single month since the 1990s.
According
to UDI, the number of asylum requests could reach up to 16,000 for the full
year of 2015, compared to 11,480 in 2014.
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