Европейската комисия предлага задължителни имигрантски квоти за страните в ЕС

European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos spoke at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, were he proposed a "relocation of asylum seekers from the member states under pressure to other member states" based on "distribution key", in a controversial overhaul of the EU's immigration rules. Speaking at a European Commission meeting on migration alongside the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Avramopoulos said that the mandatory quotas will be based on a criteria, stating that "these criteria are the size of the population, the total GDP, the number of asylum applications and persons already settled and the unemployment rate". The recent wave of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean has been disproportionately effecting the southern countries of the EU including Greece, Italy, Malta and Cyprus. Germany, which received around a third of the 626,000 asylum applications to the EU in 2014, is also said to be supporting the initiative.