Romania can take in a maximum 1,785 migrants in a voluntary scheme to help ease pressures on the European Union from an influx of refugees fleeing Middle East wars but opposes any compulsory EU quotas, President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday. The European Commission has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which 160,000 asylum-seekers should be relocated to other EU countries from Italy, Greece and Hungary, an EU source said earlier on Monday. According to the plan, Romania was expected to shelter 6,351.
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