EU splits exposed as ‘migrants’ summit begins

Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants have been further exposed as leaders begin an emergency meeting in Brussels. Slovakia is launching a legal challenge to mandatory quotas that were passed in a majority vote on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Hungary’s prime minister has proposed a radical budgetary revamp to raise funds. The summit […]

Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants have been further exposed as leaders begin an emergency meeting in Brussels.
Slovakia is launching a legal challenge to mandatory quotas that were passed in a majority vote on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Hungary’s prime minister has proposed a radical budgetary revamp to raise funds.
The summit will focus on tightening EU borders and aiding neighbours of Syria, from where many migrants come.
European Council President Donald Tusk called for “a concrete plan” to secure the EU’s external borders, “in place of the arguments and the chaos we have witnessed in the past weeks”.
As she arrived at the summit, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite said it was “not a lack of European unity, but a lack of European wisdom” that had led to this point.