E.U. leader proposes plan to redistribute migrants across continent
- 9 years ago
Seeking to allay Europe's fast-worsening refugee crisis, a top E.U. leader proposed on Wednesday a plan to redistribute 160,000 asylum-seekers across the continent.
The plan would be one of the largest-ever, Europe-wide efforts to address any migration crisis.
But with thousands of men, women and children fleeing conflict and poverty reaching the continent's shores each day, it fell far short of the need.
Nor was it clear whether all E.U. nations would support it.
Under the proposal unveiled Wednesday by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union would allocate quotas of refugees to 22 nations across Europe.
The 160,000 asylum-seekers would be spread across them, taken from the vast numbers who have already arrived in the frontline nations of Greece, Italy and Hungary.
The plan would be one of the largest-ever, Europe-wide efforts to address any migration crisis.
But with thousands of men, women and children fleeing conflict and poverty reaching the continent's shores each day, it fell far short of the need.
Nor was it clear whether all E.U. nations would support it.
Under the proposal unveiled Wednesday by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union would allocate quotas of refugees to 22 nations across Europe.
The 160,000 asylum-seekers would be spread across them, taken from the vast numbers who have already arrived in the frontline nations of Greece, Italy and Hungary.