EU to Propose Shared Migrant Quotas

The European Union’s executive body is set to propose new measures this week on migrant quotas for each of the 28 member countries, sharing the responsibility for the thousands of refugees entering Europe through the Mediterranean. The European Commission is scheduled to unveil the proposals Wednesday in the wake of the migrant boat crisis, basing quotas on a redistribution key determined by GDP, population size, unemployment rate, and past numbers of asylum-seekers. The news comes just before the EU’s top diplomat plans to ask the UN on Monday for military action off the Libyan coast, in an effort to crack down on trafficking networks as they attempt to smuggle migrants across the waters.