Rifts in Europe over irregular migration remain after 'success' of new EU deal
The world’s largest club of wealthy countries remains split between those that support Brussels’ initiatives focused on distributing migrants between members in an act of solidarity and those countries, like Hungary or Poland, whose far-right governments consider the influx of outsiders a threat.
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00:00 European Union leaders are meeting in the Spanish city of Granada where the migrant
00:04 crisis is top of the agenda.
00:06 Hungary and Poland oppose a deal agreed by the bloc to make changes to handle irregular
00:12 immigration during times of high arrivals.
00:15 It hopes to make them law before the next round of EU elections.
00:18 "There is no agreement on immigration because previously we decided that migration will
00:24 be regulated on a unilaterally agreement basis, which was changed last week.
00:32 Poland and Hungary were not satisfied with the proposal but they pushed us through, I
00:37 mean pushed through the proposal.
00:38 So Hungary and Poland was totally left out of that.
00:42 So after this there is no chance to have any kind of compromise and agreement on migration.
00:48 Politically it's impossible.
00:49 Not today, generally speaking."
00:51 Poland's government describes the deal as a diktat from Russels and Berlin.
00:56 The Prime Minister has rejected the bloc's plans to penalise countries like Poland for
01:01 refusing entry to illegal immigrants.
01:04 It comes as Italy records a spike in migrant arrivals.
01:07 [Whoosh]