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Italy and Malta requested that the other countries receive the boats and the 450 people on board. Until Monday, only 57 people, all women and children, had landed.
However, Sunday, Germany, Spain and Portugal have promised to host 50 asylum seekers after France and Malta have made similar promises before.
Thus, the government of Italy, strong in matters of immigration, allowed the two congested patrol boats to dock early Monday morning. The boats picked up refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean on Saturday.
But not all countries in the EU want to contribute to it. The Czech Republic rejected the request and called the distribution plan for "a path to hell".
Criticism of the EU: – People are sent to hell on earth (+)
if Italy will accept the last 150 people as plaintiffs. asylum or if the government will require that they be transferred to other countries of the EU. On Monday, it was reported that Belgium is also willing to take a certain share.
The European Commission also stresses that Italy and other EU countries need to hear about long-term solutions.
landing cooperation to which they are entitled. However, the Commission does not believe that ad hoc solutions of this kind are sustainable in the long term, says Commission spokesperson Margarit Schinas
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Many refugees and migrants are now trying to use Spain as a gateway to Europe.
On Sunday, a wooden boat of 125 people was arrested in Mauritian waters while traveling from Senegal to the Spanish Canary Islands. According to the Mauritian authorities, everyone was aboard Senegal and they would have had to pay $ 1,000 each to traffickers of human beings to be brought to Europe.
All passengers were arrested and taken to Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital. Mauritanian authorities have reportedly arrested hundreds of African migrants on their way to Europe.
(NTB)
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