Wednesday 25 May 2016

Spain begin to receive refugees after months of waiting



MADRID (Ina) - Spain began this week receiving refugees come from camps in Europe, Turkey and Lebanon with its commitment to receive 586 of these by the middle of June, after discussions lasted formonths about government inaction to maintain this level. 
Reached 22 , all of them men Eritreans Wednesday (May 25, 2016) come from Italy to Madrid airport, according to the Interior Ministry announced the afternoon. On Tuesday, he was greeted twenty Syria, Iraqis came from Greece are the first batch since November 2015. 
According to Agence France - Presse, expects the Spanish Interior receive 586 refugees , mostly Syrians and Iraqis by mid - June, as explained in a statement. 
Among them will come 285 from Lebanon and 150 from Greece and 101 from Turkey and fifty from Italy. 
He asked some 1.3 million refugees who came especially from countries in conflict , such as Syria and Iraq, asylum in the European Union 2015 and reached hundreds of thousands of them by sea to Greece and Italy. 
in September / September , the European Union developed a program to redistribute the first of 140 thousand people living in camps within the Union and outside the group, the Union 's 28 countries. 
and pledged Spain receive more than 17 thousand, but only 17 refugees were not accepted since then. 
attributed the authorities so the delay to the slow administrative procedures necessary in Greece and Italy. 
came under the conservative government led by Mariano Rajoy criticized many of the political leaders, especially leftists, and associations. 
According to the international Organization for migration said more than 191 thousand migrants havecrossed the Mediterranean in a bid to reach Europe since the beginning of this year, he spent them 1370. 

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