国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

World / Europe

EU pushes through plan to relocate 120,000 refugees amid oppositions

(Xinhua) Updated: 2015-09-23 10:36

EU pushes through plan to relocate 120,000 refugees amid oppositions

Migrants look out from the window of a train as they wait to depart from the railway station in Tovarnik, Croatia, September 21, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

BRUSSELS - The governments of European Union (EU) member countries approved the proposal to relocate 120,000 migrants by a majority vote on Tuesday amid fierce oppositions from several countries in central and eastern Europe.

The European Commission has proposed resettling the 120,000 refugees on top of the 40,000 refugees that member states have already agreed to relocate from EU countries exposed to massive migratory flows.

Home affairs ministers of EU member states gathered in Brussels Tuesday for the second time in as many weeks to resolve the dispute over the relocation plan. As EU member states were wildly divided over the issue, the decision was at last pushed through by a vote on Tuesday.

The decision established a temporary and exceptional relocation mechanism over two years from the frontline member states Italy and Greece to other member states, it said in a statement after the meeting.

Following this decision, the EU is now in a position to relocate a total of 160,000 people in clear need of international protection in the coming two years.

According to the decision, 66,000 persons will be relocated from Italy and Greece (15,600 from Italy and 50,400 from Greece). The remaining 54,000 persons will be relocated from Italy and Greece in the same proportion after one year of the entry into force of the decision.

EU said the member states participating in the mechanism will receive a lump sum of 6,000 euros for each relocated person.

However, the plan was outright resisted by some member states, including Britain and several countries in central Europe.

"We, the Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians [were] against, Finland abstained. The plan was adopted," Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec wrote on Twitter after the vote.

The minister said the plan was an "empty political gesture" ahead of the meeting, though he previously said his country was ready to take in thousands of people on a voluntary basis.

Denmark and the United Kingdom are not participating in this decision.

"We would have prepared to have adoption by consensus but we did not manage to achieve that. Some member states did not join this large majority. They pointed out their other legitimate points of view," said Jean Asselborn, Minister for Immigration and Asylum of Luxembourg.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics

...
兰州市| 大同市| 元阳县| 博罗县| 固镇县| 城市| 沅陵县| 安泽县| 黑水县| 福鼎市| 富平县| 公主岭市| 大化| 莱州市| 陕西省| 达拉特旗| 潮州市| 静海县| 上饶市| 巴中市| 隆林| 内丘县| 安庆市| 商河县| 石棉县| 陕西省| 台湾省| 五原县| 长宁区| 抚州市| 德州市| 蕉岭县| 恩平市| 廉江市| 吴川市| 恩施市| 沅江市| 田东县| 桂阳县| 唐河县| 泉州市|