Wednesday, September 9, 2015

EU President reveals permanent quotas for 160,000 refugees

European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker has called on EU countries to accept 160,000 refugees under a new quota system to distribute arrivals more fairly.

In his first State of the European Union speech - President Juncker took aim at the reluctance of some member states to accept thousands of asylum seekers arriving from Syria.

Our Europe correspondent Sandra Gathmann reports

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