According to a media report, the European Commission is calling on the EU member states to make specific offers in the next few weeks to accept refugees for the coming year. "The EU pays the member states 10,000 euros per person as part of the resettlement programs," said the EU commission's spokesman for domestic and migration policy, Christian Wigand, of the newspaper Welt am Sonntag before the planned meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels on Tuesday. The resettlement program was "quite successful", since 2015 the EU states have taken in over 80,000 people from crisis areas in this way.
“We expect the member states to make commitments for the coming year by mid-September.
It's about people from different regions, but of course Afghanistan will now also be a particular focus, ”said Wigand.
The goal is "safe and legal ways for particularly vulnerable people to get protection in Europe, ie resettlement".
It is about “clearly defined groups of people who are particularly at risk, such as journalists or human rights activists, especially women and girls.
This is done in close cooperation with the UNHCR. "
Wigand went on to say that the European level is working “at full speed” on a comprehensive approach to the crisis in Afghanistan, which, in addition to resettlement, also includes support in the region for local people, the fight against people smugglers and border management.