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Controversy Over EU Migrant Quota

Global business EU Ministers have backed a quota plan to relocate 120,000 migrants around Europe, but many central European countries are not happy.

EU Ministers have backed a quota plan to relocate 120, 000 migrants around Europe, but many central European countries are not happy. We hear why Slovakia is resisting the plan and Peter Spiegel of the Financial Times in Brussels, tell us what the fallout could mean for the future of the European project.

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his first visit to America. He'll be meeting business leaders, dining at the White House and addressing the United Nations - while US tech firms will be hoping he brings with him greater access to the growing Chinese market. We ask what the outcomes of the trip might be. And we hear from Dr Julio Velarde, Peru’s Central Bank Governor of Peru and why he has his eye on the US central bank.

Plus, can happy employees make a business more productive? The BBC’s Emily Thomas has been finding out.

Throughout the programme we are joined by David Moser from Capital Normal University in Beijing and Kimberley Adams, reporter with the US public radio show Marketplace is in Washington DC.

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Wed 23 Sep 201500:06GMT

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  • Wed 23 Sep 201500:06GMT

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