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EU’s refugee relocation scheme not working

A member of the Italian Red Cross helps a woman holding a child as she disembarks from the Aquarius rescue Ship run by NGO S.O.S. Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres in the port of Salerno after a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, on May 26 2017. © AFP

Max Civili
Press TV, Rome

The European Union’s refugee relocation scheme is struggling to meet its targets months before the plan’s expiration date. EU member states had agreed to take in up to 160,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to address a refugee crisis in 2015. But as our correspondent Max Civili says they have only managed to relocate 11% of their total obligations.


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