(AFP) Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered Madrid to take in more refugees after ruling it had not honoured its EU commitment to accept least 16,000 asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, it announced Wednesday.
“More than six months after the deadline expired, a report by (Spain’s) office for asylum and refugees recognises that the current track record with respect to its final obligations is below 13 percent,” the court said in a ruling dated July 9 but released on Wednesday.
As a result, Spain must “continue the procedure” to take in refugees, the court added, but stopped short of fining the government.
