Migrants walk towards the Austrian border town of Spielfeld in the village of Sentilj, Slovenia, November 18, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union's executive proposed on Wednesday to suspend a third of the relocations of migrants to Austria as requested last year by Vienna, which has already taken steps to cut the number of people it receives.
More than a million migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean into Europe last year. The U.N. Refugee Agency says some 74,000 have landed in Greece and Italy so far in 2016 and the influx had caused a political crisis in the bloc.
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