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EU nations urged to admit dozens of migrants stuck in Mediterranean |
2019-01-04 |
[AlAhram] The executive European Commission is calling on EU countries to admit nearly 50 The Netherlands and Germany have each offered to admit some of the ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's long-running deadlock over sharing responsibility for Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has been speaking with officials in EU capitals to admit 32 "Avramopoulos calls for the member states to provide their support and contribute to this joint effort to disembark those on board safely," Commission deputy spokeswoman Mina Andreeva told a news conference in Brussels. "More solidarity of all member states is needed," said the spokeswoman for the Commission, which is the EU's executive arm. Though Malta has refused to admit the Italia and Spain -- both of which are frontline countries -- have also refused to accept them. Since coming to power more than six months ago, the Italian government has been demanding greater solidarity from reluctant fellow EU states. Andreeva said the latest standoff demonstrates how "predictable and sustainable solutions for disembarkation and allocation are urgently needed in the Mediterranean," she said. EU member states have failed to agree on a permanent mechanism to relocate More than one million people, most of them fleeing Syria's civil war, entered the bloc in 2015 in Europe's biggest migration crisis since World War II. Some 113,482 |
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