Photo: Thomas Winje Øijord / ScanpixThe EU’s immigration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has asked Norwegian immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug to be “as ambitious as possible” in regard to accepting EU-designated quota refugees. The quota system enables the UN to relocate refugees whose needs cannot be met in countries that neighbour the conflicts they have fled from. The commissioner has now sent a letter to all EU and Schengen member countries, including Norway, encouraging the individual states to take positive action. Only a small fraction of that number is currently living in the various countries, according to the report, with the UN stating that three percent of the agreed number had been rehoused after one year. Those countries are now seeking to changes Schengen rules in an effort to enable the controls to be extended.

Source: The Local September 15, 2017 07:52 UTC