{"id":3839,"date":"2017-06-13T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/?p=3839\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:10:17","slug":"penalties-to-the-countries-that-refuse-to-accept-refugees-sanctions-will-be-imposed-from-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/penalties-to-the-countries-that-refuse-to-accept-refugees-sanctions-will-be-imposed-from-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"PENALTIES TO THE COUNTRIES THAT REFUSE TO ACCEPT REFUGEES &#8211; Sanctions will be imposed from tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Wednesday sanctions will be imposed on countries that are not implementing the refugee relocation agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Commissioner for Immigration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, warned the Member States not complying with the relocation of refugees from Greece and Italy, giving four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As he stated, &#8220;the Commission will not hesitate to make use of the powers provided for and initiate infringement proceedings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Countries that have not yet implemented the agreement are Hungary and Poland, and there are the other Member States with little input into the process.<\/p>\n<p>In the May report, the European Commission stated that Hungary, Poland and Austria are the only Member States that have not yet relocated &#8211; although Austria has formally committed to relocating 50 people from Italy &#8211; while the Czech Republic has not participated in the program for about a year. According to Deputy European Commission Vice-President Alexander Wiederstein, if the Commission intends to make the relevant announcements, he referred to statements by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at Der Spiegel that the Commission would address this issue &#8220;this week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Relocation from Greece and Italy started in the autumn of 2015 with the aim of transferring 60,000 refugees from Greece to other European countries in two years. To date, only 12,000 have been relocated. Other 12,400 could be relocated if all were in line with the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wednesday sanctions will be imposed on countries that are not implementing the refugee relocation agreement. A month ago, Commissioner for Immigration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, warned the Member States not complying with the relocation of refugees from Greece and Italy, giving four weeks. As he stated, &#8220;the Commission will not hesitate to make use of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}