(VOVworld) - EU leaders have agreed at a summit in Brussels to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. Summit chairman Donald Tusk said 40,000 would be relocated to other EU states over the next two years.

In this Thursday, June 18, 2015 file photo, Syrian migrants arrive by dinghy from the Turkish coast, at a Mytilene's beach, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. More than 25,000 people have arrived on the island of about 80,000 inhabitants since the start of the year. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

However, there will be no mandatory quotas for each country. Earlier, Mr Tusk called on EU member states to share the burden of the boat loads of illegal migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean. The idea is to quarantine disembarking migrants in Italy and Greece into centers where they will then be fingerprinted and identified. The EU’s border agency Frontex, along with the EU’s police agency Europol and the EU’s asylum support agency EASO, will screen them.