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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Slovenia expects first relocation scheme refugees on Thursday

[Migrants make their way on foot on the outskirts of Brezice]Slovenia is due to receive the first 30 refugees and migrants from Greece under the European Union migrant relocation scheme, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. EU leaders in September approved the transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, where most of them arrived, to other EU states. The group of Syrians and Iraqis will arrive on Thursday and initially be placed in a centre for asylum seekers in the capital Ljubljana, the ministry said.


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