HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland on Friday accepted its two percent share of 120,000 asylum seekers to be relocated across European Union states, but said it remained opposed to a mandatory quota system and that it planned to cut refugee benefits.
The European Commission issued the quota list earlier this week to get a grip on a record-breaking wave of refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa reaching Europe, starting with 120,000 asylum seekers now in Greece, Hungary and Italy, which have borne the brunt of the influx.
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