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| EU Parliament Backs Refugee Relocation Plan | |
| 2015-09-18 | |
| [AnNahar] The European Parliament on Thursday backed plans to relocate 120,000 refugees around the EU to help the frontline states of Greece, Hungary and Italia, in a move that raised pressure on ministers to adopt the proposals next week. In an emergency vote called after EU interior ministers failed to back the scheme on Monday,
The ministers meet again Tuesday to discuss the plans with a possible summit of EU leaders also on the cards. Parliament had to approve the plans but would normally have done so after EU states had rubberstamped them. Fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, nearly 500,000 migrants have flooded into Europe and EU member states have until now only agreed to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers from Italia and Greece. Hopes of a unanimous deal collapsed in the face of opposition from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania at the crisis meeting in Brussels, officials said. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I hate to be critical, but why are these hausfrei d00ds wanting to go to Germany. Have they not heard of the South of France? Srsly, they le Tour and everything. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-09-18 11:25 |