EU unveils 'compulsory solidarity' plan to share burden of migration

 Five years after Europe's migrant crisis, Brussels unveiled on Wednesday a plan for sharing the responsibility for asylum seekers among members under a "compulsory solidarity mechanism", in an effort to rally skeptical states such as Austria.

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum proposes that EU member states who do not want to volunteer to house more migrants can instead take charge of sending those whose asylum requests are rejected back to their homelands. That in an effort to also reduce pressure on Italy and Greece, where most arrivals land.
Johansson wants the 27 member states to commit to sharing the burden of handling asylum claims from migrants arriving on the bloc's shores. "It's obvious to everybody that ad hoc solidarity or voluntary solidarity is not enough. That has been proven for many years now," she said. "It has to be mandatory."