BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The head of the United Nations refugee agency praised the European Union’s refugee quota system for member states on Tuesday and urged Hungary to drop its resistance to taking in its fair share of migrants. Grandi said the EU’s quota system, introduced at the height of the migrant crisis in Europe in 2015, provided a model for other countries worldwide. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country took in the bulk of the migrants who entered the EU in 2015-16, has also urged Hungary to implement the EU court ruling. Grandi warned EU states in April not to send asylum seekers back to Hungary until Budapest amended a law that allows it to detain migrants at its border. EU rules allow member states to return refugees to the first safe country they reached on entering the 28-nation bloc.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 12, 2017 17:15 UTC