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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11927

16 December 2017
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / Migration
Donald Tusk justifies his opinions on relocation mechanisms but continues to think consensus is impossible
Brussels, 15/12/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 15 December, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, had to defend the positions he has taken on the asylum seeker relocation mechanisms, which he described earlier in the week as inefficient.

The President of the Council subsequently drew fire from the Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, who described his intention to open another debate on these migrant “quotas” as “unacceptable and anti-European”. 

Donald Tusk said that the member states'...

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