Migrants, here are how many relocations the individual countries are entitled to each year

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It is called the “Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism” and provides for the annual redistribution of migrants of about 10 thousand migrants identified mainly among those rescued at sea following SAR operations in the central Mediterranean and along the western Atlantic route. It follows the political declaration adopted on 10 June 2022 in Luxembourg by the European Home Affairs Council, under the rotating French presidency. The Declaration was shared by 19 Member States and 4 associated with the European Union which therefore participate in the Mechanism.

For Italy 3,500 relocations

These are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. However, real commitments to participate in the relocation have so far been made by 13 countries, for a total of 8,289 shares: Germany, France, Portugal, Ireland, Romania, Norway, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Croatia, Luxembourg, Lithuania and Iceland. Italy is the first beneficiary of the transfers, with 3,500 relocations of refugees expected by summer 2023, based on the arrivals registered in our country.

38 asylum seekers welcomed in France

France was the first country to participate in the Mechanism, welcoming, on 25 August last, that they had landed in Italy. The operation was preceded by pre-identification, photo-signaling and health checks by the Italian authorities and by the analysis of individual files and interviews by the French delegation which arrived specifically at the Italian reception centers.

In Germany 74 refugees

Subsequently, in October, in the same way, Germany welcomed 74 refugees who had arrived in Italy. A new French delegation was expected shortly to take charge of a further 50 migrants, but there was a stop in Paris. Another 5 were then accepted by Luxembourg. France is the country that participates more “generously” in the mechanism, having given the willingness to welcome 3,500 asylum seekers out of the 10 thousand envisaged in the agreement. Germany follows with 3,000. With significantly lower shares, Portugal and Ireland (350), Romania (285) and Norway (200).