The European Union's migrant
resettlement scheme risks coming to a halt, EU sources said
Tuesday, with a planeload of 100 refugees from Italy taking up
the last places set aside so far.
Only six countries have said they will take in migrants,
and only small numbers, the sources said.
At the moment those are Austria, Germany, Greece,
Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden.
The scheme calls for 40,000 asylum seekers presently in
Italy to be resettled over the next two years - which would
require at least 1,500 places a month.
The refugees themselves are wary of the resettlement
scheme, fearing that once they board the plane they will be
deported outside of the EU instead - as is happening currently
with a group of Syrian refugees in Greece, who are refusing to
fly to Luxembourg because they believe they will be tricked.
So far no Syrian refugees in Italy have agreed to the deal,
and authorities had a tough job convincing 19 Eritrean refugees
to leave on the first resettlement flight to Sweden on October
9.
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