UK to fight Brussels refugee quota

The Brussels blueprint, drawn up in response to the deadly people trafficking from Libya which has seen hundreds drown off the coast of Italy, would impose a quota based on economic and social factors.

 

Emergency mechanisms would be invoked by the end of the month to oblige Britain and the other 27 member states to make a “fair and balanced contribution” to taking in “persons in clear need of international protection”, it was reported.

 

A longer-term plan for “a mandatory and automatically-triggered relocation system” would, The Times said, result in the UK dealing with at least twice the present 30,000 cases each year, on a par with the numbers seen in France and Italy.

 

A “redistribution key” would allocate numbers based on GDP, population, unemployment and previous rates of taking in asylum seekers, it said.

 

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