Slovakia goes to court over EU refugee quota plan

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico says his government has challenged an EU policy to relocate 120,000 migrants from Italy and Greece to other member states.

Fico filed a lawsuit against the mandatory quotas at the European Court of Justice on Wednesday.

"We think that there has been a violation of the rights of national parliaments and the European Parliament," he told reporters in Bratislava.

"We demand that the court annul this decision, pronounce it invalid and require the Council to pay t…
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