Germany to push for compulsory EU quotas to tackle refugee crisis

Merkel is said to want hundreds of thousands of refugees brought directly from Middle East to control numbers and avoid perilous journeys Germany is to push for more ambitious and extensive common European policies on the refugee crisis, according to policymakers in Berlin, with compulsory and permanent EU quotas for sharing probably hundreds of thousands of people to be brought to Europe directly from the Middle East. New European powers replacing some national authority over border control, an...