EU Sues Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland Over Refusing Refugee Quotas
(WorldNews Belgium)

The European Commission is suing several eastern member states on Thursday over their failure to fulfill their legal obligations in accepting a share of asylum seekers, according to Deutsche Welle. The defendants including Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic say that the EU is interfering with their sovereignty. The European Commission took the countries to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday for their failure to participate in the scheme that was adopted at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 that was meant to focus on `burden-sharing.` That focus meant that the 160,000 refugees in Europe would be relocated across most of the bloc`s 28 member-states to help ease the...