The European Council has ended
without adopting conclusions on the issue of migration,
suggesting that an agreement among the 27 member States was not
possible at the summit due to opposition by Poland and Hungary,
sources said Friday.
There will be a statement by European Council President Charles
Michel on the issue, the sources said.
Warsaw and Budapest are opposed to making solidarity in the
management of migrants and refugees obligatory, something which
Italy and Greece have demanded, given the high number of
migrants coming to their shores via sea. Under an agreement
thrashed out by interior ministers earlier this month, each
country would be responsible for a share of migrants and
refugees arriving in the EU and those unwilling to receive them
would have to pay around 20,000 euros for each person they chose
not to accept.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had a meeting with Polish Prime
Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and her Hungarian counterpart Viktor
Orban on the sidelines of the European Council summit on Friday,
but the talks apparently failed to break the deadlock caused by
the objections the two leaders raised on Thursday.
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