Call for European distribution mechanism for boat refugees/Palermo’s mayor and EKD Council chair issue joint declaration
Hannover (ots) - Everywhere in Europe cities, municipalities and citizens are very willing to assist. However, there is no Europe-wide distribution mechanism to accommodate refugees rescued in the Mediterranean in the European Union. "We need a political emergency solution this summer," say Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, and Palermo's Mayor Leoluca Orlando in a joint declaration. Orlando and Bedford-Strohm add: a group of EU member states must act as a "coalition of!-->…