EU to propose 'binding' quotas for migrant relocation

The European Commission’s European Agenda for Migration, to be unveiled later this week, will include politically sensitive proposals on possible binding rules to distribute asylum seekers and refugees among member states.

EU leaders had largely sidelined both issues in an emergency summit on migration last month following the drowning of over 1,700 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

But leaked documents, seen by EUobserver, indicate that both ideas are now back on the table i...