(ANSA-AP) - BRUSSELS, 31 OCT - A top European Union legal adviser says the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland have been breaking EU law by refusing to comply with the bloc's migrant quota scheme. In a legal opinion Thursday, Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston said the EU's highest court should rule that the three countries "have failed to fulfill their obligations under EU law." EU nations agreed in 2015 to relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece as the countries buckled under the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants. But the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland took in almost none over the two years the scheme was in operation. The EU's executive Commission sought an explanation but they gave no satisfactory answers.

Sharpston's opinion is not legally binding, but such recommendations are usually followed by the European Court of Justice.(ANSA-AP).