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Poverty + Development

Controversial EU refugee ‘relocations’ from front-line states starts Friday

With the crisis worsening, the EU has agreed to relocate a further 120,000 after overriding opposition from the same Eastern European states.

October 7, 2015
by THE JAPAN TIMES/

BRUSSELS – The EU said a controversial program to relocate 40,000 refugees within the bloc from overstretched front-line states would formally start on Friday when a group of Eritreans will travel to Sweden from Italy.

“First relocations within EU take place on Friday” following an agreement by interior ministers in September, the EU’s home affairs office said in a tweet. “Eritrean refugees will be relocated from Italy to Sweden.”

An EU source told AFP that a flight will leave Roma Ciampino airport in the morning and take the first refugees to Sweden.

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