(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency)
Brussels Rajab 26 1437 May 3 2016 SPA -- The European Union's executive is due Wednesday to propose hefty fees for EU capitals that don't take in asylum seekers from overburdened member states media reported amid an effort to spread refugees more evenly across the bloc dpa reported.
The proposals are aimed at reforming the EU's asylum system which broke down under the pressure of last year's migration surge into Europe.
Under the so-called Dublin rules refugees must register their claim of asylum in the first EU member state they reach and that country should then decide on their request.
For most of the more than 1 million people reaching the bloc last year the first EU member state reached would have been Greece. But Athens overwhelmed by the arrivals allowed many of them to continue unchecked towards wealthy northern European states such as Germany and Sweden.
In the future a corrective fairness mechanism would kick in whenever any member state experiences a significant surge in arrivals according to proposals that the European Commission is due to present Wednesday which were seen by German daily Die Welt.
This mechanism would foresee the distribution of asylum seekers to other member states according to a distribution key. Those who refuse to participate could be fined 250000 euros (287000 dollars) per rejected applicant Die Welt wrote.
-- SPA
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