EU immigration ministers will on Monday seek to agree on how to distribute 60,000 refugees between countries. Sweden offers to receive more than 1800 of them.
– For the Swedish point of this is very low figures. 1300 is what is going to Sweden for a week, says Minister for Justice and Minister for Migration and Morgan Johansson.
The European Commission proposed last spring that the EU countries should allocate 40 000 refugees who fled to Italy and Greece as well another 20 000 refugees who are in refugee camps in the Middle East and North Africa. At the last EU summit decided, however, EU leaders that Member States should be allowed to decide how many they want to receive.
According to Morgan Johansson, it is still unclear whether it will reach the 60 000 on Monday .
– I assume the EU Presidency pays great force this weekend to convince countries to take in refugees, says Morgan Johansson.
He got on Friday supported the Government line of the Parliamentary Committee on EU Affairs.
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