Germany and France to push for joint EU immigration and security policies

Berlin in particular is determined to draw up mandatory quotas for refugees and is warning of reintroducing national border controls

Germany and France are to launch a drive for more concerted European immigration and security policies following the foiled attack on an Amsterdam-Paris high-speed train and with Europe reeling under the strain of the biggest migration emergency since the end of the second world war.

Berlin, in particular, is increasingly determined to push a new system of mandatory quotas for refugees across the EU despite the plan being rejected amid acrimonious scenes by EU leaders at a summit in June. The European commission is also to propose a new "permanent" system of emergency refugee-sharing across the union.