Germany and France to take around 55,000 refugees under EU plan
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BRUSSELSSep 08, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Sep 08, 2015 12:00 am
Germany and France would take nearly half of the 120,000 refugees to be relocated from frontline states under a plan by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, a European source said Monday. According to Juncker's proposal for mandatory quotas for EU countries, which is set to be unveiled Wednesday, Germany would take 31,443 and France 24,031 to relieve the burden on Greece, Italy and Hungary, the source told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Spain would take 14,931 under the plan, the source said.
French President François Hollande confirmed in a press conference yesterday that France would take 24,000 refugees over two years. Europe has been spurred into action by public outrage over pictures of the body of Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, who drowned with his brother and mother while the family tried to sail from Turkey to Greece last week. Juncker is due to formally announce his plan for the relocation of 120,000 refugees in his EU State of the Union speech on Wednesday. But many EU countries, including Hungary, are opposed to quotas, and an earlier Juncker plan for the mandatory relocation of 40,000 refugees was rejected by EU member states at a summit in June. At the time they agreed to take in 32,000 on a voluntary basis.
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