(ANSA) - Brussels, May 22 - 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.
Up to 36,000 asylum seekers from Italy with EU quota
Source says EC proposal would move 60% elsewhere in Europe