The European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, who is "far more optimistic than two months ago", voiced his confidence, on Wednesday 12 April, that the member states will meet their obligations by September to relocate migrants from Greece and Italy, although the European mechanism will ultimately cover just 33,000 migrants of the 160,000 individuals envisaged in September 2015.
In a complete departure from his speech just a month ago (see EUROPE 11737), Avramopoulos even...