BERNE (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that the burden of taking on hundreds of thousands of refugees could not fall on just a few European countries and called for quotas to ensure a fair distribution of those seeking asylum.
Speaking in the Swiss capital Berne, she also acknowledged that Europe's so-called Dublin rules, which require migrants to apply for asylum in the first European Union country they arrive, were not working.
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