The EU is reducing its overall target of how many asylum seekers need to be relocated from Italy and Greece by September.
Governments around the EU had committed to initially relocating 160,000 under a two-year scheme that was later amended to around 98,000.
That figure is likely to drop again to just over 33,000, given that the number of people eligible for the scheme is far lower than the initially stated ceiling.
"The number of those who are eligible for relocation in Ita...
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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.