Eastern European countries – Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic – reject EU’s migrant plan for not being tough enough
A couple sits covered with a blanket as refugees and migrants camp on a road following a fire at the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, September 10, 2020.
"There is no breakthrough – there are many changes but that is not yet a breakthrough," Orban told reporters after talks in Brussels with his Czech and Polish counterparts and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Orban said the "tone of the proposal" was more to his liking, but said "the basic approach is unchanged.""The Hungarian position is: 'Stop the migrants'. That's two different things."The EU plan to reform the so-called Dublin regulation on asylum seekers – which von der Leyen herself admits has failed – was launched two weeks after a fire destroyed an overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, thrusting the issue back into the spotlight.
His Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki said the Visegrad group would stick by its demands for "the most rigorous and effective border control policies."
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