The refugee relocation and resettlement programme
are EU solidarity programmes that address
the need for humanitarian intervention
in the occasion of so-called refugee crisis.
Both programmes were agreed at different moments in 2015 and 2016
to give immediate and temporary reply
to refugees that started arriving in large number crossing Greece
and Italy and who were coming mostly from Syria.
The relocation programme forces the Member States of European Union
to allow fair and balanced distribution
of 160.000 people from Greece and Italy.
On the contrary the resettlement programme is the EU's commitment
that admits the transfer of 2.504 people to the Union
who are displaced in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
According to these two programmes Spain has to accept
about 17.680 refugees.