Hungary and Slovakia challenged Europe’s refugee scheme. They just lost badly
On Wednesday morning, the European Court of Justice turned down a challenge brought by Hungary and Slovakia against the European Union’s mandatory refugee relocation scheme. This is a big deal — the E.U. has had to manage an influx of over 1 million displaced people since 2015. Mediterranean E.U. states such as Greece and Italy faced a particularly big burden since they were often the countries where refugees first arrived. This is why the E.U. established new rules that required each member state to accept a quota of refugees in September 2015.
The plan was initially supposed to transfer approximately 120,000 refugees from Greece and Italy to Central and Western Europe.… Seguir leyendo »