[Migrants make their way on foot on the outskirts of Brezice]Slovenia said it took in its first 28 migrants on Thursday under a European Union relocation scheme that many other EU countries have been slow to carry out or rejected outright. The migrants include families and individuals from Iraq and Syria and will be housed initially in a centre for asylum seekers in the capital Ljubljana, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Vesna Mitric said. Last September, a majority of leaders of the 28-member EU approved the transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, where most first set foot on EU soil, to other EU states to share out the burden.
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