No Sign of Winter Respite Amid Slow Start to Refugee Relocations
- EU has relocated just 86 people so far out of pledged 160,000
- 700,000 migrants in 2015 testing EU commitment to free travel
Migrants wait in the rain at the Trnovec crossing on the Croatia-Slovenia border on Oct. 19, 2015.
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The European Union said it has resettled just 86 refugees out of its pledge of 160,000, as the number of migrants forging through Europe from war-torn Syria shows no sign of letting up despite the approach of winter.
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