Share the burden: EU's Juncker calls for compulsory refugee quotas (part 2)

  • 9 years ago
Angela Merkel has called it a test of Europe's spirit. How to share the burden from a record surge of asylum seekers and migrants? Her nation, Germany, expects 800,000 this year. On the day that the French started taking in several hundred refugees, the European Commission has unveiled a "compulsory" plan to dispatch the new arrivals among the 28 member states. Was Jean-Claude Juncker right to insist on mandatory quotas? How to handle the nations that say no? Can Europe pass the test of unity?

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