GERMANY IS NOT FULFILLING ITS OBLIGATION ON RELOCATION – Need for right implementation of the relocation scheme

The German Foreign Ministry admits that the EU’s rules on relocation to the country of immigrants from Greece have not been respected, Die Welt reports.

According to the decision of the European Council, Germany should have received 28,000 immigrants and refugees who have applied for asylum in Greece by the end of September this year, but by the end of April it had received just 2.423, according to a reply from the Ministry Foreign Affairs to a question from the Greens parliamentary group.

Germany also receives very few immigrant relatives living in Germany from Greece. More than 5,500 applications were made last year in the first quarter, but only 739 people last year and 837 others in the first quarter of this year, as the answer shows.

Greenpeace spokesperson for immigration and refugee policy, Louise Amtsberg, criticised the government. “It is a shame that the German government refuses to implement the binding EU decision on the relocation of refugees from Greece,” he said.