Nearly 2,000 migrants are estimated to have lost their lives attempting the perilous sea crossing from North Africa to Europe in 2015, and it's not even fully five months into the year.

It's to try to stem this deadly tide that the European Commission -- the European Union's executive arm -- will on Wednesday consider a new migration policy, in an effort to share responsibility across Europe for the mass influx of migrants.

The plan, a draft of which CNN has seen, would include a call for quotas on the number of migrants each EU country would be required to take in, based on population size, gross domestic product and unemployment rate.

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