EU proposes new asylum rules to stop migrants crossing
Europe
By Gabriela Baczynska
BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - The European Commission
proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people
waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its
passport-free zone. In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, 1.3 million people reached the EU and most ignored legal restrictions, trekking from the Mediterranean coast to apply for asylum in wealthy Germany, prompting some EU countries to suspend the Schengen system that allows free passage between most EU states.