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Austria Asks for Exemption From EU Migrant Relocation

After the recent expiration of Austria’s exemption from the EU migrant relocation system, the country is telling EU institutions that it has already taken its fair share of asylum seekers. The move is another blow to...

by LibertiesEU

After the recent expiration of Austria’s exemption from the EU migrant relocation system, the country is telling EU institutions that it has already taken its fair share of asylum seekers. The move is another blow to the relocation system that would cover only a fraction of migrant arrivals to the EU, being barely implemented because of opposition from primarily Eastern European countries. Under a two-year plan to expire in September, only about 14,500 asylum seekers of the planned 160,000 have been relocated from Greece and Italy.

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