EU ministers to meet on refugee resettlement

EU ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting on refugee resettlement next Monday and several eastern EU nations are already voicing their opposition to a mandatory spreading of refugees to their countries.

The European Parliament backs on Thursday the plan of EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to spread out 160,000 refugees in Hungary, Greece and Italy across the other member states.

The support of the European legislature had been expected and has little impact compared with the power of the member states, which also need to back the plan.

A big group of migrants cross the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
A big group of migrants cross the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

— AP

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