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Monday 22 Feb 2016 - 20:31 Makkah mean time-13-5-1437
Refugee crisis (Image from Internet)
Lisbon (IINA) – Portugal has offered to take up to 10,000 migrants from countries struggling to cope with the refugee influx, to help maintain its own population, according to AFP.
Portugal's socialist premier Antonio Costa last week sent letters to Austria, Greece, Italy and Sweden – countries that have seen refugees arrive in large numbers – offering to welcome up to 5,800 more refugees in addition to the 4,500 they already agreed to take as part of the European Union's refugee quota system.
Costa recently told Brussels that Portugal should "set an example", adding that he was against "a Europe that closes its borders to block access to refugees".
His comments echo those he made during a visit to Berlin earlier this month, when he said that it was "unfair" to burden Berlin with a duty which is for "all European leaders".
Germany has taken over one million asylum-seekers this past year alone, an influx weighing heavily on the European power. But refugees haven't exactly been knocking on Portugal's door, with most opting to go to northern European countries such as Sweden and Denmark, which have begun tightening their borders in an effort to stem the flow of migrants.
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