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Europe currently has 22 percent of global GDP, yet hosts just 12 percent of the world's refugees. (Photo: Proactiva Open Arms)

Fate of EU refugee deal hangs in the balance

This week the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in the EU meets to run through a packed agenda covering topics that could be as diverse as fisheries, defence and trade relations.

This may look like a routine meeting. But in fact this one is unusual and the stakes are high.

On the agenda, by chance on the UN's World Refugee Day, is the Union resettlement framework, a real atte...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

Europe currently has 22 percent of global GDP, yet hosts just 12 percent of the world's refugees. (Photo: Proactiva Open Arms)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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