Fractious meeting running into early hours of Friday arrives at quota of 60,000 but exempts Hungary and BulgariaFractious European leaders argued into the early hours of Friday over how to handle the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, eventually agreeing a compromise plan to share out the care of people fleeing war and poverty in north Africa and the Middle East. Determined not to be dragged into negotiations over Greece’s debt debacle at their summit in Brussels, leaders instead found themselves sparring for seven hours about whether to take in 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers now in Italy and Greece and another 20,000 people currently outside the EU. Continue reading...
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