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Thursday, March 2, 2017

European countries have carried out 8% of promised refugee relocations

‘No more excuses,’ warns European commission as it emerges only Malta and Finland have met resettling obligations European countries have accepted less than 10% of the 160,000 refugees they promised to move to safety from unsanitary and cramped camps in Italy and Greece, leading the European commission to warn it will “accept no more excuses”. Only 13,546 relocations have been carried out so far – 3,936 from Italy and 9,610 from Greece – amounting to just 8% of the total the EU committed to relocate in 2015. Continue reading...


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