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In order to initiate relocation programmes,
the EU Pilot Project on
Intra-EU Relocation from Malta
(EUREMA) was implemented under the
ERF Community Actions during 2010
and 2011. EUREMA was the first multilateral
intra-EU relocation initiative, and
was led by the Maltese authorities with
the participation of ten Member States -
France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia and the UK - with the active
involvement of UNHCR and IOM. The
results have been modest - a total of
255 relocation places were pledged by
the ten participating Member States,
of which 227 persons were eventually
relocated to six of the pledging
states (France, Germany, Luxembourg,
Portugal, Slovenia and the UK). 59
EUREMA
Member States
(2010-11)
DE 102
FR 95
LU 6
PT 6
SI 8
UK 10
Number of
relocated
refugees
Source: EASO Fact-finding report on intra-EU
relocation activities from Malta, July 2012
59 European Commission, Commission Staff Working
Document on the Third Annual Report on Immigration
and Asylum (2011) accompanying the Communication
from the Commission to the European Parliament and
the Council Third Annual Report on Immigration and
Asylum (2011), 30 May 2012
The refugee and migrant flows to Malta
resulting from the conflicts in Libya and
Syria have prompted new calls for solidarity
and for sustainable responses
from the EU. On 12 May 2011, the
European Commission organised a
Ministerial pledging conference for
the relocation of migrants from Malta
and the resettlement of migrants
from North Africa. A second EUREMA
programme, known as EUREMA II and
financed as an ERF Community Actions
Programme, began in 2012 and concludes
in mid-2013. Seven Member
States - Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania,
Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia
- pledged a total of 91 places under
EUREMA II. An additional five Member
States - Denmark, Germany, Ireland,
the Netherlands and Spain (together
with the EEA countries Liechtenstein,
Norway and Switzerland) - made
bilateral arrangements with Malta that
added another 265 relocation places.
In the December 2011 Communication
on ‘enhanced intra-EU solidarity in
the field of asylum’, 60 the Commission
proposed a voluntary permanent
relocation scheme. The proposal
was supported by the European
Parliament, which called on the
Commission to submit a communication
on a framework for the
transfer of protection of beneficiaries
60 European Commission, Communication on
enhanced intra-EU solidarity in the field of asylum
An EU agenda for better responsibility-sharing and
more mutual trust, 2 December 2011
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