EU on collision course over plans to share out migrants


  • World
  • Monday, 14 Sep 2015

Migrants walk towards Hungary outside the village of Horgos, Serbia September 14, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union members were on collision course on Monday over proposals to distribute asylum-seekers across the continent, a plan backed by safe-haven Germany but resisted by several ex-Communist states in the east.

A draft agreement for discussion by interior ministers in Brussels would see them agree to a proposal from the EU executive to relocate 120,000 of the most deserving cases around the bloc - but leave the way in which to distribute them for discussion over the next few weeks.

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