EU meeting today to decide whether countries will accept quotas to resettle
asylum-seekers

   By Nahlah Ayed, CBC News Posted: Sep 14, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated:
   Sep 14, 2015 4:02 PM ET
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   The Ahmads are lucky. Their reunion predated word that Germany was
   starting to strain under the influx it had invited, and they just
   missed by days the decision to temporarily impose controls at the
   border with Austria and to send 2,100 riot police to secure it.

   Their reunion also comes before tough new Hungarian laws come into
   effect this week, aimed at stemming the stream of asylum seekers
   walking across its border, and likely scuttling the plans of thousands
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   Today, EU member states will be discussing a proposal to more evenly
   spread the already arrived refugees among them. The idea for a
   mandatory refugee quota, presented at the European Parliament last
   week, suggests members resettle 160,000 between them.

   Besides the criticism that the number falls far short of what's
   necessary, working against this proposal will also be the significant
   differences of opinion among EU members.
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