Portugal is going to receive another 191 refugees

Portugal is going to receive another 191 refugees by the end of the month to add to the 230 or so who have already arrived under the resettlement process, the Portuguese internal affairs minister, Constança Urbano de Sousa, said in Brussels.

“Portugal has already received 230 refugees, mainly Eritreans from Italy and we are expecting a new group (...) by the end of the month with 191q more”, the minister said at a conference with her European counterparts.

The triage of the asylum seekers in Greece should speed up shortly with a new system “with the collaboration with the UN high commissioner for refugees and the European Asylum System to re-register and register the refugees and to send the information to the member states”, that are willing to receive “Syrian refugees or others that are eligible such as Iranians, who are in Greece”.