Relocation Of Asylum Seekers

A small group of Eritreans left Italy for Sweden on Friday, the first contingent of asylum-seekers to be relocated under a European Union scheme to ease the burden of the migration crisis on frontline countries.

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and French President Francois Hollande played down tensions today over a migrant crisis which has seen hundreds of asylum seekers blocked at the border between the two countries.

A small group of Eritreans left Italy for Sweden on Friday, the first contingent of asylum-seekers to be relocated under a European Union scheme to ease the burden of the migration crisis on frontline countries.

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and French President Francois Hollande played down tensions today over a migrant crisis which has seen hundreds of asylum seekers blocked at the border between the two countries.