By Jeff Najjar
Antonio Guterres—the UN high commissioner
for refugees—has called on the European Union (EU) to admit up to 200,000
refugees as part of a
mass relocation program that would be binding on EU states. EU foreign ministers are due to meet on Friday to discuss the
continent’s rising refugee crisis. Guterres’s appeal, echoed by France and Germany,
recommends establishing EU quotas to share the burden of an increase of
migrants and refugees, which has significantly impacted Greece, Italy and
several countries in southeastern and central Europe. Guterres’s call for the
EU to admit refugees has several opponents who are concerned about protecting
their respective borders amidst the flow of migrants and refugees into the EU.
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