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		</div><p>A German minister is proposing a system under which the European Union would take in a fixed number of refugees directly from crisis-hit areas, thus avoiding smugglers, then send any further asylum-seekers elsewhere.</p>
<p>Germany is the prime destination for those flooding into Europe. It expects at least 800,000 to arrive this year – one official has said possibly one million &#8211; and is struggling to deal with the influx.</p>
<p>Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” EU quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.</p>
<p>He said if those are exceeded over the course of a year, people crossing the Mediterranean would be rescued but then taken to “safe regions” outside the continent.</p>
<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed repeatedly that Germany will take in people fleeing civil wars and persecution, although people arriving for economic reasons must return home.<br />
She has said there is no legal limit to the number of asylum-seekers Germany can take.</p>
<p>Mr de Maiziere said his initiative does not question that, and people who do seek asylum in Germany would still have their application examined.</p>
<p>“We won’t be able to, or want to, shut ourselves off completely in Europe,” he said.</p>
<p>“But we will not be able to take in all refugees from the whole world, or all those who seek their economic future in Europe, that is also clear.”</p>
<p>Mr de Maiziere, a member of Ms Merkel’s conservative party, would not specify how large the proposed contingents should be.</p>
<p>The idea, first floated in a weekend magazine interview, drew an unenthusiastic response from its centre-left coalition partners.</p>
<p>Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, a Social Democrat, told ARD television that it appeared to be “the opposite of what the chancellor has rightly said”.</p>
<p>“Setting up contingents for asylum-seekers is not a solution,” he said.</p>
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