(see previous).
The emergency mechanism for an
intra-EU relocation of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy (24,000)
and Greece (16,000) will only apply to Syrians and Eritreans who
arrived in the two countries after April 15 of this year, the
European Commission said in a proposal approved Wednesday. The
EC proposal will be put to EU leaders, who have been
increasingly split on the re-allocation of migrant quotas after
an initial apparent agreement.
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