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Monday, September 7, 2015

EU sets new quotas for states to take asylum-seekers

The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more than 40,000 and France 30,000 of a total of 160,000 asylum-seekers it says should be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary, an EU source said on Monday. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is due to unveil new proposals on Wednesday. Leading the quotas among the 120,000, of which 54,000 would come from Hungary, Germany would, if EU leaders agree to the scheme, be asked to take in 31,443 and France 24,031.


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