EU interior ministers failed to reach unanimous agreement on Monday on a plan for binding quotas to relocate 120,000 refugees and take the strain off Greece, Italy, and Hungary, officials said.
“Yes, not everyone is on board at the moment,” Luxembourg minister Jean Asselborn told a press conference in Brussels, adding however that there was a “large majority” in favour and they would return to the issue in October.
EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos added: “For our proposal on 120,000 we did not have the agreement we wanted.”
The ministers did formally agree however to launch a plan first proposed in May to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy over the next two years, according to quotas suggested by the Commission.
