Luxembourg

Migrant quota challenge should be dismissed by Luxembourg court

The EU's top court in Luxembourg should throw out a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia to a scheme to share thousands of asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system, the court's senior lawyer said Wednesday.

26.07.2017

(AFP) The EU's top court in Luxembourg should throw out a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia to a scheme to share thousands of asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system, the court's senior lawyer said Wednesday.

The two countries filed lawsuits with the European Court of Justice in 2015 shortly after the bloc's leaders pushed through the mandatory quotas to ease the migrant crisis, over the objections of Budapest and Bratislava.