In 2022, Germany attempted to send nearly 70,000 migrants back to other European Union countries where they first arrived under the Dublin Agreement, but was only successful in just over six per cent of the cases. Germany attempted to return 68,709
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has slammed France and Germany for taking 95 of the nearly 94,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy this year.
Despite promising to take in 3,500 migrants from other European Union countries, France has received just 38 people since June — and will not take any more after Italy rejected port access to an NGO’s migrant “taxi” ship.
French president Emmanuel Macron has proposed creating a bill next year to reform France’s immigration and asylum policies, including a proposal to redistribute migrants to rural areas facing demographic decline.
Germany has agreed to take as many as 3,500 migrants from Italy in the first use of a European Union migrant redistribution scheme.
Members of Matteo Salvini’s League have slammed an expected relocation of migrants to the party’s heartlands in Italy’s north, with some stating they will not accept any new arrivals.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The interior ministers of the five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe want their EU partners to share the burden more equitably.
Hungary blocked the EU budget over the inclusion of new powers which would, they claim, give Brussels globalists a ‘political whip’.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has rejected migrant redistribution as a failed policy, saying that the EU’s plans do so will not work.
