An aid organisation is calling for “compassion” after EU ministers agreed a controversial deal to redistribute 120,000 migrants among member states.
Euronews correspondent James Franey spoke to Sanj Srikanthan from the International Rescue Committee at the Maximilian refugee camp in Brussels.
It is located just a few kilometres away from where EU leaders were meeting at an emergency migration summit.
James Franey, euronews:
“What is your reaction to the deal struck between EU governments (to relocate 120,000 migrants)?”
Sanj Srikanthan, International Rescue Committee:
“The international rescue committee obviously welcomes what is a significant commitment by the European Union to take those 120,000, but we need to put that in context of four million refugees in the Middle East, half a million in total now in Europe and our concern is for the most vulnerable and whether they are going to be in those quotas.
“But also how the European Union intends to implement a relocation
