Luxembourg to take 751 refugees over 2 years

EU Member States onTuesday adopted a decision to rehouse 120,000 refugees primarily from Italy and Greece across 23 Member States over a period of two years. The text already specifies the destination of 66,000 of them.

Here is a map summarising the new homes proposed for the first 66,000 refugees involved in the programme.    

• Each country has a tooltip showing its space of belonging (EU and / or Schengen) and the host countries proposed over a two-year period to house mainly refugees currently in Italy and Greece from the first phase of 66,000 refugees.
• The UK, Denmark and Ireland, which have an option to withdraw the European policies, are not affected by this distribution.  
• The menu on the top left of the map also displays the main migration routes.

The remaining 54,000 refugees should also be "relocated" from Italy and Greece, but the EU Council says they could come from other countries if an exceptional situation arises.

How they are rehoused will be confirmed later, but their distribution should be "proportional" to the scale already used for the 66,000, said the Luxembourg Presidency.

Tuesday's decision comes after that of the JHA Council of September 14, which already had a distribution of officially recorded 40,000 refugees.

It is thus a total of 160,000 refugees to welcome over two years.

Luxembourg will welcome 751 refugees from:  

• 237 (including 181 from Greece and 56 in Italy) among the first 66,000 refugees involved in the mechanism adopted on Tuesday, September 22;   
• 194 among the 54,000 other refugees affected by the same mechanism;    
• 320 among the 40,000 refugees from Greece and Italy concerned by the Council Decision of 14 September, 2015.

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