Germany To Accept More Than 30,000 Refugees, Despite Closing Border Last Month

by Fox News | International

European Union approves plan to relocate 120,000 refugees across Europe

EU Ministers agreed, as a plan, to accept and distribute some 120,000 refugees from Syria, even as more migrants continue to risk their lives on dinghy boats across the seas, Fox News reported.

On the heal of that announcement, German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere said Tuesday that his country would accept more than 30,000 refugees "out of solidarity and responsibility".

"We are doing this out of solidarity and responsibility, but also in our own interest," de Maiziere said, adding "At the moment, something like 50 percent of those who are arriving in Greece are coming to Germany. With a quota of 26 percent, fewer of this group would come."

But the Quota system make people ask whether it would be safe to allow that much people from a volatile region like the middle east.

However, it is also believed to be capable of inhibiting some of them from embarking on `secondary migration' rather than settle in one country: and according to him, "if people are distributed in Europe, then they can't choose what country they go to. They have to stay in the country they were distributed to."

Britain has already announced it would accept 20,000 refugees, spread over five years leading to 2020. Whether the EU will insist Britain accepts more refugees is yet to be seen.

Britain said they are leading the rescue effort by looking after the refugees at source and have already spent £1bn in the past five years since.