Oxfam calls on the European Union to accelerate the distribution of refugees among Union countries

In a report, Oxfam called on the European Union today, Monday, to accelerate the pace of refugee redistribution among the countries of the Union.

Oxfam said that, since last September, more than 2,050 people have been resettled in ten countries in the European Union, and this is “instead of the number announced by 5,100 people,” adding that since the commission submitted “reform proposals” in the same month, there has been no progress reported.

The report emphasized that other measures stipulated in the refugee agreement between the European Union and Turkey in 2016 were implemented immediately, from reception centers on the Greek islands, while there is still a “lack of agreement” regarding the distribution of people entitled to asylum in the European Union.

The report called on European Union countries to ensure decent living conditions for refugees in the camps, which were designed to be temporary under the agreement, and not for long stays.

The report says that many of them are stuck inside Greece that does not have the financial means to promote their integration, nor does it have a strategy to do so.

While during the first nine months of 2020, about 27,000 asylum seekers were accepted, and since 2016 there have been more than 73,000 asylum seekers.

Southern European countries, including Italy and Greece, which have a large number of asylum seekers, had called for other countries to receive some immigrants, but Hungary and the Czech Republic categorically refuse to commit to accepting immigrants.