On Wednesday 27 September, the European Commission called on the member states to commit to taking in 50,000 refugees currently in Libya, the Sudan, Niger and even Egypt and Ethiopia.
This resettlement exercise is not compulsory for member states and will be staggered over a two-year period. It will also combine the resettlement programme proposed by the Commission last July, focusing on 37,000 places, and the new appeal made by their High Commissioner for Refugees, at the beginning of...