The European Union has asked member states to accept 40,000 asylum seekers following mounting pressure from the United Nations and rights organizations to take in more people who travel by boat from Libya to Italian shores.
The scheme would apply to refugees from Syria and Eritrea who arrived after April 15 and would relocate them from Italy and Greece over the next two years to another EU country. Recipient countries would receive about $6,500 per refugee and review their applications for asylum.
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