EU member states made a commitment to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy but have made only 854 pledges to date.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday (22 October) urged national governments to step up their undertakings on the two-year plan to distribute Syrians, Eritreans and Iraqis.
All three nationalities have a 75 percent or higher asylum recognition rate, a precondition for the relocation scheme.
Juncker said its time to "act ...
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