Meeting in Brussels on Friday 9 December, EU interior ministers, in the last Council meeting under the Slovak Presidency, were unable to agree on the details of ‘effective solidarity,’ a concept that Bratislava wanted to promote during its time at the helm of the EU for reform of the Dublin system of asylum rules and also more generally for refugee crisis management.
The talks will now continue under the Maltese Presidency. Slovak interior minister Robert Kalinak said the question had...