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Monday, June 8, 2015

Bulgaria wants fewer migrants under EU relocation plan

Bulgaria is seeking to limit the number of migrants it accepts under an EU plan to relocate about 40,000 people who have arrived in Italy and Greece to other member states, the government said on Monday. Under the proposals by the executive European Commission, the bloc would also accept 20,000 refugees from outside the 28-nation grouping and share them around EU states. Germany and France are expected to take about 40 percent of the migrants, while Bulgaria, the bloc's poorest member, should take about 572 migrants already in Italy and Greece and more than 200 additional refugees.


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