Germany has said it is resettling the last few migrants from Greece and Italy under the EU’s relocation scheme. Germany’s Interior Ministry said on Monday that it will only resettle a small number of migrants from Italy and Greece in the coming weeks, as the European Union’s migrant relocation program appears to be drawing to a close. An Interior Ministry spokesperson told German newspaper Die Welt that far fewer people had fulfilled the necessary criteria for relocation than expected. Last month, some 500 migrants were still waiting to be relocated from Italy to Germany, while in Greece the number less than 40. The program to relocate migrants landing in Greece and Italy was launched by the European Union in the wake of the 2015 migrant crisis.

Source: Egypt Independent January 29, 2018 10:41 UTC