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EU Prepares to 'Sanction' States That Refuse Their Refugee Quota

© AFP 2023 / SAKIS MITROLIDISMigrants and refugees block the railway tracks as they protest in makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 30, 2016, where thousands of them are stranded by the Balkan border blockade
Migrants and refugees block the railway tracks as they protest in makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 30, 2016, where thousands of them are stranded by the Balkan border blockade - Sputnik International
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The European Commission could impose sanctions and financially charge the states which refuse to welcome refugees under the EU migrant quotas, according to local media.

Refugees and their supporters demonstrate outside of a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW(Sputnik) — The European Commission is planning to financially charge the states which refuse to welcome refugees under the EU migrant quotas, media reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the initiative.

The charge may amount to some 250,000 euros ($290,000) per refugee, The Financial Times reported, underscoring that the plans are part of the Commission’s upcoming revision of the so-called Dublin asylum regulation.

"The size of the contribution may change but the idea is to make it appear like a sanction," an official told the newspaper.

Another diplomatic source said that in any case the price of refusing to host a refugee would be "hundreds of thousands of euros."

Migrants are reflected in a puddle at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Europe has been struggling with major migrant crisis. More than 1.8 million migrants entered the European Union in 2015, according to the EU border agency Frontex. Last year, the European Commission called on EU member states to redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East who had landed in Italy, Greece and Hungary. Brussels laid out a quota system for refuge adoption that took into account social and economic indicators of each country.

On Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to present new proposals to change the current Dublin Regulation, which deals with asylum policy in the bloc. The regulation stipulates that the first EU member country entered by a refugee is responsible for processing their asylum application. It is believed to be leading to a disproportionate amount of migrants in peripheral EU member states.

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