(ANSA) - WARSAW, Poland — Leaders from Central Europe said Tuesday they reject a European Union policy that calls for all member states to receive migrants, protesting suggestions that the level of their compliance could be linked to the availability of EU funds to them, as reported by AP.

A meeting in Warsaw of the so-called Visegrad Group brought together Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and her counterparts from Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic for talks including EU's migrant policies and a plan of sharing some 160,000 migrants among member states to ease the migrant wave pressure on Greece and Italy.

The EU recently warned of financial consequences to those who do not comply.

Central European leaders said they reject the relocation plan and will not yield under the financial pressure, which they called an attempt at blackmail. Poland's government is citing security concerns among the reasons behind its refusal to take in people. Szydlo said at a joint news conference that EU's migration policy should result from a true compromise among member states that would take into account especially sensitive issues. "The Visegrad Group, including Poland, will never agree to blackmail and will never agree to conditions being dictated to them," Szydlo said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country was further sealing its borders and tightening regulations to block access to any more migrants, saying that serves the security of all of Europe. The Visegrad Group aspires to have a greater role in EU policies while at the same time makes a point of criticizing the bloc's decisions. MONIKA SCISLOWSKA.

TRIESTE - 'There are countries that want to back out of the obligation to mutual solidarity, but this requirement is not negotiable because the cohesion of the Union is based on the respect of agreements'', according to FVG president Debora Serracchiani, who commented on the positions of some countries against the migrant relocation plan.

''We can understand that Austria is still under pressure - he continued -, since it has already received a substantial flow of migrants in respect of its population, even though the redistribution plan includes small numbers for this country. The situation of some other countries is quite different: even though they continue to benefit from substantial EU funds for cohesion and integration, they have done almost nothing so far to give relief to those who are at the forefront''.

According to Serracchiani ''we must seriously face this issue: there is a group of new EU member countries that find it hard to give the same importance to privileges and obligations arising from being EU members''.