Efforts to reach an agreement on a plan to distribute asylum seekers across member states hit an impasse on Tuesday (16 June).
Interior ministers in Luxembourg were unable to reach a consensus on whether the distribution plans should be mandatory.
The European Commission in late April had proposed a binding scheme to distribute 40,000 asylum seekers arriving in Italy and Greece over a two-year period.
It also proposed resettling 20,000 UN-recognised refugees.
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