EU migration chief wants permanent relocation plan for refugees

ATHENS (Reuters) - European Union Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday he would submit a proposal soon to create a permanent migrant relocation mechanism to deal with Europe's migrant crisis. "The Commission is ready to take a step further... soon we will submit a proposal for the creation of a permanent relocation mechanism," Avramopoulos told a news conference in Athens with Greek migration minister Yannis Mouzalas and Jean Asselborn, the foreign minister of Luxembourg. (Reporting By Lefteris Papadimas)