EU interior ministers were due Monday to take a final stab at how to relocate 60,000 asylum seekers within their bloc, but it was uncertain whether they would reach the target, dpa reported. Conflicts and repression in Africa and the Middle East have driven thousands of people to the European Union in search of protection or a better life. Thousands have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. EU leaders agreed last month to redistribute 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other member states over two years as well as resettling 20,000 refugees from outside the bloc.
