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Migrants Crisis: EU Set To Announce Plans To Tackle Wave

The European Union on Wednesday said it is due to announce plans to tackle the migrant wave. According to the European Commission President, Jean-claude Juncker, … Continue reading Migrants Crisis: EU Set To Announce Plans To Tackle Wave


EU on migrants crisis The European Union on Wednesday said it is due to announce plans to tackle the migrant wave.

According to the European Commission President, Jean-claude Juncker, EU has thrown European policy into disarray.

Mr Juncker opened his speech saying it was “not a time to take fright”.

He was heckled by UK anti-European Union politician, Nigel Farage, but dismissed his comments as “worthless”.

Mr Juncker’s fresh migration proposals would expand upon quotas for the relocation of 40,000 migrants in Italy and Greece proposed in May. Though, governments only agreed to take 32,000.

The new plans for an extra 120,000 migrants would relocate 60 per cent of those now in Italy, Greece and Hungary to Germany, France and Spain, reports said.

The development came after a surge of thousands of mainly Syrian migrants pushed north through Europe in recent days.

Germany, which is the main destination for many migrants, supports quotas, but some EU countries oppose a compulsory system.

Also, Hungary had been warned to expect an additional 40,000 migrants by the end of next week.

The numbers distributed to each country would depend on GDP, population, unemployment rate and asylum applications already processed.

Based on the proposals, 120,000 additional asylum seekers would be distributed among EU nations, with binding quotas.

In all of these, the authorities are now reinforcing a border fence designed to keep migrants entering from Serbia and are toughening asylum laws.