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EU countries on Thursday reached an agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's rules to share asylum seekers and migrants hosting more equitably, officials informed.
EU states’ interior ministers agreed on new policies for dealing with migration including financial penalties for countries that refuse to accept relocated migrants, but Poland and Hungary vowed to resist the changes.
Warsaw says it would not pay €22,000 ‘fine’ for each person it did not host as ministers hold crunch talks in Luxembourg
The CDU is pushing for firm controls on the german-Polish border, but Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser rejects this. Instead, surveillance in trains and air traffic is now to be expanded. In Germany, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) registered 110,516 first-time asylum applications in the first four months of the year, a good 78 percent more than in the previous year. Most of the applicants came from Syria and Afghanistan. According to the European statistics agency last week, more than 40 percent more initial applications for asylum were made in the European Union at...