On Wednesday (April 15th), the European Union Action Plan for Protecting Refugee and Migrant Children will take effect with respect to 1,600 unaccompanied minors in the country-members of the EU. The first group is 12 children who set out on Wednesday, and the second another 50 departing on Saturday.
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translated by Artemis Leontis
On Wednesday , the first group of unaccompanied refugees in Greece will set out for other countries in the EU. Twelve children will depart for Luxembourg. The second group of 50 children leaves on Saturday.
The European plan concerns 1,600 unaccompanied minors who will be moved to specific country-members of the EU at the initiative of Greece, as noted in the newspaper EfSyn.
The 12 children will leave their places of residence on the islands of Lesbos, Samos, and Chios. This move relates to an agreement by the Undersecretary of Immigration and Asylum Yiorgos Koumoutsakos and his counterpart in Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, Secretary of the Exterior, Immigration, and Asylum.
Contributing to this effort were Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs since 2019, in addition to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and the European Asylum Service.