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Originally Posted by MTVN
It's not only in Central and Eastern Europe, all the EU countries are participating apart from the UK. That article is saying that nine countries from central/eastern Europe voted against the agreement but have had it imposed on them anyway, though those countries will only take 10,000 between them
A lot of EU countries are not going to like this and will see it as bullying by Germany and France. It's a bold move to have a vote like this decided by majority and not unanimity.
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lets get context ...uk take 20,000 but our population has risen by 3.7 million in 10 years already...Germanys population has fallen by 2 million in the same time....but germans have already broken their promise to take 800,000....the Saudis take hardly anyone