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EU needs to step up its resettlement pledges, says Miliband (l) (Photo: © European Union,2017/Source:EC-Audiovisual Service/Photo:Mauro Bottaro)

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David Miliband: EU should take over 500,000 refugees

David Miliband, Britain's former foreign minister turned humanitarian charity chief, is pressing the EU to accept some 540,000 resettled refugees over five years.

In an interview with EUobserver on Monday (20 November), Miliband said Europe can either accept unregulated irregular migration or make a better effort of creating legal pathways.

"The point is that the vast bulk of refugees are in poor countries, not in European countries," he said, noting that most are stranded in plac...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

EU needs to step up its resettlement pledges, says Miliband (l) (Photo: © European Union,2017/Source:EC-Audiovisual Service/Photo:Mauro Bottaro)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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