According to a Guardian article, the European Commission will present two options to the member states, which will have to agree upon either. The first one is to a provision that would give to the European Union the authority to distribute asylum seekers depending on the wealth of its member state and its capability to include them.
The second option would be to preserve the Dublin Regulation but to add a “corrective fairness mechanism” so refugees could be redistributed in times of crisis to take the pressure off frontline arrival states, especially since refugees’ final destination is the European Union and not entry states in particular.
This mechanism would be based on an existing relocation scheme, which however has already shown poor results. Member states have agreed to resettle 160.000 refugees from Greece and Italy but barely 1.000 people have been resettled since.
According to asylum rules dated back to 1990, refugees have to apply for asylum at the entry state of the European Union. The Guardian reports that it has seen the policy paper expected to be published today and it states that the current crisis has exposed “significant structural weaknesses and shortcomings in the design and implementation of European asylum and migration policy”.