Relocation and Resettlement: EU Member States urgently need to deliver

EU News 120/2016

Strasbourg, 12 April 2016

Today, the Commission gives an update on the progress made up until 11 April 2016 and assesses the actions undertaken by Member States to implement the emergency relocation and European resettlement schemes. Overall, progress since the Commission's first report has been unsatisfactory: on relocation, little progress has been made since mid-March, while we see good progress on resettlement. Good progress on resettlement is also the result of the EU-Turkey agreement which has shifted greater focus onto resettlement efforts. Greater efforts on relocation, however, are increasingly urgent in view of the humanitarian situation in Greece.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1343_en.htm

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