EU Floats Asylum-System Overhaul to Make Nations Share Load
- System buckled under influx of 1 million migrants last year
- Existing rules say refugees must go back to country of arrival
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The European Union outlined its road map for overhauling the bloc’s asylum system following its collapse under the pressure of the biggest influx of migrants since World War II, presenting a tentative plan to wrestle control away from national governments.
Two days after a deal to send migrants back to Turkey from Greece came into operation, the EU on Wednesday stepped up its response to the crisis with a proposal to reshape its beleaguered migration management arrangement, which currently gives responsibility for processing an asylum claim to the first European country in which a refugee arrives.