Croatia received on Friday the first group of migrants - four Eritreans arriving from Italy - under a European Union relocation scheme which has prompted criticism and resistance from some ex-communist member states of the bloc. Croatia is due to receive 1,583 migrants under the relocation scheme agreed last September which envisages the transfer of some 160,000 people in total from Greece and Italy. Only a very small number of migrants has so far been relocated due to the resistance of some member states, especially in central Europe, that argue it will be difficult to integrate them.
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