As many as 36,000 asylum seekers, depending on "changeable" figures, could leave Italy under proposed quotas being developed by the European Commission, a source told ANSA Friday. "Roughly 60%" of asylum seekers now in Italy - ranging from 40,000 to 60,000 people - would be sent elsewhere in Europe under the EC plan, the source said. EU migrant quotas would likely take some pressure off front-line Mediterranean countries like Italy, Greece and Malta but some other European nations are balking at imposed quotas.
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