Forty-three relocations - or other forms of aid - for Cyprus, 14 for Malta, 3,361 for France, 4,555 for Germany, but also €12.9 million paid by Belgium and €21.9 million by the Netherlands, which had made it clear in recent months that it would not receive any new asylum seekers on its soil under the new solidarity mechanism created by the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’.
These are some of the commitments made on 8 December by the EU27 under the first decision creating the annual...