[A boy sits next to an old statue outside the main building of the disused Hellenikon airport]By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed a system of distributing asylum seekers across the EU on Wednesday that aims to ease the load on frontline states like Greece and Italy but may face stiff resistance from governments in Eastern Europe. The European Union executive published legislative proposals to reform the so-called Dublin system of EU asylum rules that includes a "fairness mechanism" under which each of the 28 states would be assigned a percentage quota of all asylum seekers in the bloc that it would be expected to handle. Governments could refuse to take people in for a year a time if they paid another country to accommodate them.
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