Democracy & Justice

No EU Help for Italy to Handle Migrants

EU countries are running out of time to comply with relocation quotas on Italy and Greece, the EC migrationcommissioner, Dmitris Avramopoulos, has said. He added that "160,000 asylum seekers were to be taken...

by LibertiesEU

EU countries are running out of time to comply with relocation quotas on Italy and Greece, the EC migrationcommissioner, Dmitris Avramopoulos, has said. He added that "160,000 asylum seekers were to be taken from Italy and Greece by September, but that the latest numbers were still 'very low.'" Meanwhile, EU countries have declined to help Italy by opening their ports to asylum seekers and migrants. The EU ministers' meeting took place amid a fresh wave of people coming via Libya to Italy and near-record migrant fatality rates in the central Mediterranean.

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