A Syrian refugee holds a child moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 3, 2015. Greece will ask the European Union for about 700 million euros to build infrastructure to shelter the hundreds of refugees and migrants arriving on its shores daily, the government said on Thursday. REUTERS/Dimitris Michalakis
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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