The plan to set up European immigration quotas on immigration was resisted yesterday by some EU governments amid doubts about how the system would actually work in practice.
The idea is to decide at a national level how many people to admit and from what country, but with the European Commission playing a co-ordinating role.
This quota system could serve as an incentive for third countries to stop illegal immigrants coming to the EU, and make them more willing to sign re-admissio...
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