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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Gabriela Baczynska

Breakthrough on stalled EU migration deal coming this week - official

Refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

European Union countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of what would mark a breakthrough after years of bitter feuds within the bloc.

The EU's migration chief spoke ahead of talks between home affairs ministers of the bloc's 27 member states on Thursday. On the table is an overhaul of EU asylum rules which broke down in 2015 as more than a million people - mostly fleeing the war in Syria - reached the bloc across the Mediterranean.

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