France has sought to push the European Union towards a long-stalled asylum pact with a plan to relocate about 10,000 asylum seekers a year to willing member states – and for unwilling ones to pay up instead.
Presented on Friday to an EU interior ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg, the French proposal foresees the 19 states in the EU’s Schengen zone committing to taking in asylum seekers from under-pressure countries such as Greece, Italy and Malta.
Instead of attempting to bulldoze through opposition by several, mostly eastern, EU member states to an overhaul of the bloc’s asylum rules, the plan calls for a “voluntary solidarity mechanism” on a 12-month test basis, SIA reports referring to a French document seen by the AFP news agency.
Those that will not take any in would provide financial contributions to help those that do.
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