Hungary, Poland Lose EU Court Challenge Over Refugee Quotas
- EU in 2017 sued Hungary, Poland, Czechs over refugee policies
- Top court in 2017 ruling backed EU’s refugee quota system
Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border near the town of Horgos in 2015.
Photographer: Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images
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The European Union won a boost for its refugee policy after the bloc’s top court said Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic failed to comply with a decision to shelter refugees in line with national quotas.
The three countries “can rely neither on their responsibilities concerning the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security, nor on the alleged malfunctioning of the relocation mechanism to avoid implementing that mechanism,” the EU Court of Justice said in binding rulings on Thursday.