EU's Mid-March Summit to Be D-Day for Refugee Policy, Orban Says
- EU leaders may see refugee proposal at March 17-18 summit
- Orban has called a referendum to block a refugee quota plan
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A meeting of European Union leaders in mid-March may be a watershed moment for the bloc’s efforts to forge a common refugee policy and a “real challenge” for those that oppose the distribution of migrants, Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban said.
“We have nerve-racking weeks ahead,” Orban said on state radio on Friday. At the March 17-18 summit “leaders will be able to read and see in writing for the first time the European policy proposal on the mandatory distribution of several million refugees among countries that include those who oppose it, including Hungary.”