Migrant quotas DON'T work, we need an alternative NOW: EU president orders Brussels to act

The current EU President, who took on the rolling presidency, proposed in May to reform the so-called Dublin system of EU asylum rules based on a "fairness mechanism" under which each member state would be assigned a percentage quota of all asylum seekers in the bloc, aiming to ease the load on states like Greece and Italy.
Eastern Europe's ex-communist states have strongly opposed the proposal and pushed for alternatives at a meeting of heads of state in Bratislava last month.
"Talks with EU leaders confirmed that mandatory quotas are becoming a politically dead issue,"... read more