2015-09-09washingtonpost.com

Seeking to allay Europe's fast-worsening refugee crisis, a top European Union leader proposed a plan Wednesday to redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers across the continent.

The plan would be one of the largest Europe-wide efforts to address any migration crisis. But with thousands of men, women and children fleeing conflict and poverty and reaching the continent's shores each day, it fell far short of the need.

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More overcrowded boats reached Greece, refugees made frantic dashes through cornfields to reach Hungary, and officials in Denmark closed down a highway and train service to try to halt the flow toward Sweden.



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