Countries in southern Europe have urged the rest of the EU to share the burden of accepting migrants from North Africa as a new influx is predicted. Italy, Spain, France, Cyprus, Malta and Greece will present joint proposals at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels on Thurtsday. The six countries want a common EU asylum system to be in place in 2012. Italy has warned that the chaos in Libya could trigger a Biblical exodus of up to 300,000 migrants. Another report says, at least one million migrants, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa, are believed to be in Libya, hoping to reach Europe.