07-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com

Spain says fewer refugees need relocating in EU

Spain hinted Tuesday it wants to receive fewer refugees from European Union border areas than it had agreed, arguing the number of people needingrelocation was far less than thought.The EU in 2015 approved a plan to share out 160,000 refugees already on European soil, mainly in Italy and Greece, across its 28 states to tackle the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War Two.Spain had agreed to take in 16,200 refugees -- around 10 percent of the total -- within two years but only 1,100 ha
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