Monday, 7 August 2017

Germany to resume sending migrants back to Greece






     Germany is set to send asylum seekers back to Greece. Germany had halted such returns under a 2011 ruling by its Constitutional Court. But it can send migrants back under the EU's Dublin Convention.

   Greek Migration Minister Ioannis Mouzalas said Greece had agreed to take some asylum seekers back in a goodwill gesture, as there had been pressure from some EU countries to do so.
  The German interior ministry told the German broadcaster that by the end of July it had asked Greece to take back 392 asylum seekers.
  According to the report, the transfers to Greece will only affect migrants who arrived in Germany from mid-March 2017.

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