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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Hungary and Slovakia lose legal bid to turn their countries into ‘refugee-free zones’

The European Union’s top court on Wednesday rejected legal action by Hungary and Slovakia to avoid accepting refugees under an EU scheme, a decision seen as a victory for countries bearing the greatest burden of Europe’s migrant wave. In a long-awaited ruling, the European Court of Justice said that it had “dismissed in its entirety the actions brought by Slovakia and Hungary”. EU countries agreed in September 2015 to relocate 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy over...


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