European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is scrambling to salvage a controversial piece of his migration strategy: a quota system for the relocation of refugees across the EU.
The plan — which aims to ease the migrant pressure on countries like Italy or Greece by moving refugees to other EU nations — has become a personal project of the Commission’s chief executive as a political backlash grows.
The issue is so important to Juncker that he has deployed his top aide, Martin Selmayr, on a tour of wavering countries in an effort to win enough support for the plan, according to officials familiar …read more
Source: European Voice
