EU migrant resettlement scheme risks halt (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, October 20 - 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.