An EU source told the BBC up to 72,000 Syrian migrants living in Turkey would be settled in the EU under the agreement.
Yeh and how many other thousands above that number that these Lords of ours have left out of the reconing. I bet that Macedonia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia are battening down the hatches.
Sorry, what's your complaint? That the EU is allowing 72,000 in, and that is too many? That the figure they'll be letting in under the scheme is higher? That the scheme should not be done because some will try to get in illegally?
That they have no idea who will take them, since the number dispersed under the current scheme is just under 300 for the whole of the EU in one year.
An EU source told the BBC up to 72,000 Syrian migrants living in Turkey would be settled in the EU under the agreement.
Yeh and how many other thousands above that number that these Lords of ours have left out of the reconing. I bet that Macedonia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia are battening down the hatches.
Sorry, what's your complaint? That the EU is allowing 72,000 in, and that is too many? That the figure they'll be letting in under the scheme is higher? That the scheme should not be done because some will try to get in illegally?
That they have no idea who will take them, since the number dispersed under the current scheme is just under 300 for the whole of the EU in one year.
That's a very valid complaint. But it does highlight what Erdogan said earlier and which, despite my dislike of him, I find hard to argue with:
"At a time when Turkey is hosting three million (migrants), those who are unable to find space for a handful of refugees, who in the middle of Europe keep these innocents in shameful conditions, must first to look at themselves," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
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http://www.politico.eu/article/why-eu-refugee-relocation-policy-has-been-a-flop-frontex-easo-med/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/115924
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(Redemption for having inflicted Dernbach on the England team previously...)
Does anyone know if his other claim that the PKK have a stand outside the talks valid?