[Migrants walk towards the Austrian border town of Spielfeld in the village of Sentilj]The European Commission will recommend on Wednesday to suspend a third of the relocations of migrants to Austria as requested last year by Vienna, which has already taken measures to cut the number of people it receives, two officials told Reuters. More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean last year and the U.N. Refugee Agency says some 74,000 landed in Greece and Italy in 2016 in what has become a politically highly sensitive crisis. The 28-nation bloc agreed to relocate people from Greece and Italy, which are struggling under the influx, to share the burden more evenly between other EU countries.
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