15-06-2015 17:30 via news.yahoo.com

Send more migrants home to make room for refugees: EU official

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is urging EU governments to send back migrants who cannot claim asylum, taking a tougher line to convince reluctant countries to receive new refugees fleeing Syria and Eritrea. Before an EU meeting in Luxembourg, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner in charge of migration, wrote to EU ministers to call for the EU's so-called return policy to be stepped up, in a letter seen by Reuters. Only 39 percent of migrants who
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