All European member states
must take responsibility for relocating migrants from Greece and
Italy, EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said
Friday.
"The decision to relocate 160,000 refugees is a binding
one," Avramopoulos told ANSA. "It is time that member states
take responsibility and do what they have committed to do.
"Offers to relocate refugees must drastically increase, and
member states must send staff in addition to those from Frontex.
"It's not a problem just for the Greeks or for the Italians
it's a responsibility that must be shared by everyone in
Europe."
The commissioner highlighted the need to ensure that
migrants whose applications have been refused are repatriated.
He also discussed possible reforms to the Dublin Regulation
- under which responsibility for asylum seekers lies with the
country in which they first arrive - to be examined in March.
The reforms will aim "to ensure a more equal distribution
system among countries; a real system of shared responsibility",
he said.
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