(Politico) The EU is discussing a proposal for countries to voluntarily relocate a minimum of 5,000 or 10,000 migrants a year, according to a draft document seen by POLITICO.
The proposal is being crafted by the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency. Dated October 20, the so-called discussion paper is meant to gauge the position of EU members and hasn’t yet reached ambassadors in Brussels. But it might represent a potential compromise approach on a subject that has long bedeviled EU members.
Indeed, reforming EU asylum rules has been one of the bloc’s most contentious issues since the migration wave in 2015. And a major source of friction has been how to relocate asylum seekers arriving at the EU’s borders.
