Eastern European member states in the Visegrad Group repeated their refusal on Thursday 13 October to accept compulsory refugee and asylum-seeker quotas and won a degree of support from the European Commission, which said it was open to discussing new asylum proposals.
In a public debate on reform of the asylum system and new European Commission proposals on police departments’ access to Eurodac, the European asylum support bureau and the future European resettlement programme, several...