BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe should agree to take in half a million refugees from the Middle East over the next five years in a legal resettlement programme if it wants to curb massive illegal migration, the International Rescue Committee charity said on Wednesday.
In a report issued on the eve of an EU summit with Turkey on controlling migration, the New York-based group said it was "a fair and achievable minimum target" for the European Union to resettle 108,000 refugees a year, half of them from Syria.
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