EU has decided – no mandatory action

The EU has come to an agreement on migration. Countries will be able to set special centres on their territories to grant asylum or to return the migrants rescued in the Mediterranean back to their country of origin. The agreement was praised by the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš who found it important that the EU had given up on the mandatory quota. "The V4 was united and succeeded," commented Babiš despite the fact that the common stance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia secured a thin deal. The V4's refusal of refugees opposes the idea of "solidarity" preferred by the western countries. As a consensus, the EU leaders called for migrant processing centres in non-EU countries. Ahead of the summit, the Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini reiterated that Slovakia supported any voluntary solidarity but would reject the mandatory reallocation of migrants.