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With the refugee crisis, criticism of Europe's approach to dealing with asylum seekers and refugees has mounted. In the absence of a unified solution, some EU governments are adopting individual solutions while others have refused to take in refugees and resisted common proposals. Under the new Commission plan, states are expected to divide more than 120,000 refugees who are already in the EU.
The last proposal by the European Commission will relieve pressure from the countries with the most arrivals and distribute responsibility among all EU members. This comes after the failure of the last plan in May. The proposal was a refugee quota system, plans over the coming two years for the resettlement of 20,000 refugees from crisis-stricken regions, and the relocation of 40,000 asylum-seekers from Greece, Italy and Malta.
