On Tuesday 16 May in Strasbourg, the European Commission called on the member states for the umpteenth time to respected their commitments on refugee relocations from Greece and Italy to the rest of the European Union.
The Commission, however, appeared to step up the pressure in its assertion that the member states that had so far failed to take in any asylum seekers on their respective soil – such as Poland, Hungary and even Austria – “are clearly in violation” of European law.
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