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            New EU Program Routes Migrants from Greece to Luxembourg

   by VOA News

   Six families from Syria and Iraq became part of the European Union's
   newest program to help migrants find better homes without the arduous
   overland journey that risks lives and strains border protection
   resources.

   The families were loaded onto a plane Wednesday to transport them from
   the Greek capital, Athens, to the small but wealthy western European
   nation of Luxembourg.

   More than 580,000 migrants have arrived in Greece this year, hoping to
   make their way through the European Union to the wealthy nations in the
   west.

   The European Union in September approved the transfer of about 160,000
   migrants from EU border nations to nations farther west with more
   resources to accommodate them. Wednesday's families were the first
   migrants to Greece to participate in the program.
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