EU needs 'fair burden sharing' to host Ukraine refugees -official

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian refugees walk on the platform after arriving from Odesa at Przemysl Glowny train station, after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Przemysl, Poland, March 21, 2022.REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries will start discussing "fair burden sharing" in hosting millions of refugees from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the bloc's top migration official said on Wednesday.

The EU will not allocate a number of refugees each country must take, she said, avoiding a repeat of failures during the last major refugee influx in 2015-16 when the 27 member states squabbled bitterly over who should take in how many refugees among the one million who had fled the war in Syria.