After the recent expiration of Austria’s exemption from the
EU migrant relocation system, the country is telling EU institutions that it has already
taken its fair share of asylum seekers. The move is another
blow to the relocation system that would cover only a fraction of migrant arrivals to the EU,
being barely implemented because of opposition from primarily Eastern European
countries. Under a two-year plan to expire in September, only about 14,500 asylum seekers of the planned 160,000 have been relocated from Greece and Italy.