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| Spain Starts Taking in Refugees after Sharp Criticism |
| 2016-05-26 |
| [AnNahar] Spain started taking in refugees this week from camps in Europe, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Leb, pledging to welcome 586 people from now until the end of June after months of strident debate over governmental inaction. Twenty-two Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n men arrived at Madrid's airport on a flight from Rome on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. Twenty Syrians and Iraqis coming from Greece were taken in on Tuesday -- the first since November last year. The ministry said that Spain planned to welcome a total of 586 refugees from now until the end of June -- a majority of them Syrian and Iraqi. Among these, 285 are coming from camps in Leb, 150 from Greece, and the rest from Turkey and Italia. Last year, some 1.3 million refugees coming mostly from the conflict-ridden countries of Syria and Iraq asked for asylum in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -- more than a of third of them in Germany. So far this year, the International Organization for Migration says an estimated 190,000 The European Union has put in place a program aimed at redistributing a first group of 140,000 people throughout the 28 member states. Spain agreed to take in more than 17,000, but until this week just 17 had arrived, with authorities blaming slow administrative procedures in Greece and Italia. Politicians and associations in Spain heavily criticized the current conservative government over the slow progress. In April, four politicians -- including two from far-left party Podemos -- went on hunger strike for one week to put the spotlight on the plight of refugees. Socialist party chief Pedro Sanchez, meanwhile, accused the government of "embarrassing Spain." |
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