The European Union's top court roundly dismissed complaints on Wednesday by Slovakia and Hungary about EU migration policy, upholding Brussels' right to force member states to take in asylum seekers. "The court dismisses the actions brought by Slovakia and Hungary against the provisional mechanism for the mandatory relocation of asylum seekers," the Luxembourg-based court said, adding it rejected the complaints "in their entirety". A further program for resettling people directly from outside the EU has also struggled to hit targets for taking in asylum-seekers. Diplomats had expected the ruling and believe it may lead to resuming EU talks over an emergency mechanism for exceptionally high arrivals of refugees and migrants. "We've been waiting for this to revive talks about the EU asylum system reform," an EU diplomat said before the ruling.

Source: CBC News September 06, 2017 08:55 UTC