EU plans mandatory system for relocating refugees: draft

By Francesco Guarascio and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission plans legislation by the end of the year that would oblige EU nations to share the burden of housing immigrants, with binding quotas based on criteria such as economic health and population. The EU executive will ask member states by the end of this month to back an emergency relocation of refugees who have already arrived. The proposals, a draft of which Reuters has seen ahead of its planned release on Wed