European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, September 9, 2015 (Photo: Reuters)
The European Commission president unveiled a major plan Wednesday for the bloc's refugee crisis, including compulsory quotas for relocating asylum seekers from overstretched frontline states.
Jean-Claude Juncker's new plan covers 120,000 refugees currently in Greece, Hungary and Italy. He also urged the EU to back an earlier plan to relocate another 40,000 from Italy and Greece.
Here are the figures released today by the Commission for the 120,000. In total 54,000 will be moved from Hungary, 50,400 from Greece and 15,600 from Italy:
Austria: 3,640
Belgium: 4,564
Bulgaria: 1,600
Croatia: 1,064
Cyprus: 274
Czech Republic: 2,978
Estonia: 373
Finland: 2,398
France: 24,031
Germany: 31,443
Latvia: 526
Lithuania: 780
Luxembourg: 440
Malta: 133
Netherlands: 7,214
Poland: 9,287
Portugal: 3,074
Romania: 4,646
Slovakia: 1,502
Slovenia: 631
Spain: 14,931
Sweden: 4,469
Under EU treaties, Britain and Ireland can decide to participate in the plan if they choose, while Denmark has an opt-out without the possibility to take part.
The quotas are worked out according to the country's GDP (40 percent), population (40 percent), unemployment rate (10 percent) and already-processed asylum applications.
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