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Avramopoulos and Asselborn: Ministers want to step up external border controls (Photo: European council)

EU asylum talks end in weak compromise

Ministers in Brussels on Monday (14 September) failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether to back a European Commission plan to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers.

Instead they opted for a weakened political agreement following stern opposition from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania.

An EU source said Poland was lukewarm. Latvia, which did not send a minister to the round table meeting, is also said to be against.

“We were hoping for something stronger”, s...

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Avramopoulos and Asselborn: Ministers want to step up external border controls (Photo: European council)

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