Amnesty International: Hungary, Poland fail to accept asylum-seekers
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EU member states have fulfilled less than a third of asylum-seeker relocation commitments, with Hungary and Poland refusing to accept any, Amnesty International’s Brussels office said on Monday, a day before the expiry of the EU relocation scheme deadline.
The AI noted in a press release that
the two year period in which EU countries have pledged to relocate asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece comes to a close on 26 September 2017.
“Two years after this scheme was agreed on, most EU member states have fundamentally failed refugees and asylum-seekers, shirking their responsibilities and leaving thousands abandoned in Italy and Greece,” said Iverna McGowan, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office.
AI said that Spain had fulfilled just 13.6 percent of its quota, while Belgium had fulfilled 25.6 percent. The Netherlands has fulfilled 39.6 percent of the target it committed to, and Portugal 49.1 percent, it said.
The only EU country that has fulfilled its quota is Malta,
AI said, adding that Norway and Lichtenstein opted in to the scheme voluntarily, and had both fulfilled their commitments to relocate 1,500 and 10 asylum-seekers, respectively.
Tell Brussels to keep all the money, let Angela the cheese eater Merkel to take them all, after all she is the one that invited them. The doors are open, number don’t matter, … then why Hungary and Poland have to take them ? Since when is a crime to protect your heritage, culture and traditions ?
Mr. Right
Those poor illegal migrants with wads of cash and cell phones, only able to take selfies in the slum areas of Europe.