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MEPs pass a non-binding motion expressing disappointment about the efforts of member states to take in asylum seekers from Italy and Greece under an EU quota scheme.

The motion calls on the Commission to extend the scheme until agreement is found on a proposed update to the EU’s Dublin regulation.

The EU pushed through a two-year scheme to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers from struggling frontline states in late 2015, despite four member states voting against.

It came after an earlier emergency scheme to relocate 40,000 people, which stopped short of proposing fixed quotas for each country.

However out of the total 160,000 relocations promised before this September, only 18,000 have actually been made .