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| Refugee crisis: EU summit amid resentment over quota deal – live | Refugee crisis: EU summit amid resentment over quota deal – live |
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| Mona Mahmood | |
| The Guardian’s Mona Mahmood has been speaking to Abu Maria, a 40-year-old father of four from Syria, who has just been granted asylum in Sweden | |
| I had to leave the Za’atari camp in Jordan by any means. I needed medical treatment for my daughter, Maria, who suffers a mental disorder and has difficulty speaking. There was no proper medication or clean accommodation so her suffering was accute. | |
| I had no choice but to smuggle myself to Greece on a crowded boat. I had to borrow $1,500 from a friend in Jordan. The Jordanian authorities were only too happy to allow me to leave. They gave me approval within a day. | |
| My plan was to take Maria with me to Europe, but after the drowning of the Syrian kid, Alan Kurdi, I decided to leave her with her mother in Jordan. It took me 15 days to get to Sweden after crossing Greece, Macedonia, Hungary and Germany. | |
| I wish I could have gone to England as I speak English, but my friends warned me that I would end up in Calais for months and never be able to get to England. They said that the police were checking lorries and trains heading to England and I might end in jail. | |
| I went to the immigration centre in Gothenburg as soon as I stepped off the the ferry to Sweden. To my surprise, I found more than 300 refugee already in a queue. The Swedish authorities took us to a hotel to stay over night and come to apply again on Tuesday. | |
| I’m so glad to be in Sweden. I can breathe freedom now. I was suffocating in Jordan. | |
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| The European Commission has published a useful guide to how the refugee quota system will work. It sets out the individual quotas of refugee that each country will take under the plan. Despite objections from four central European countries they will also be forced to take their share of refugees. Here are the quotas for the dissenting countries: | |
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| Summary | Summary |
| Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120,000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states. | Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120,000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states. |
| Here’s a roundup of the latest developments: | Here’s a roundup of the latest developments: |