EU splits exposed as summit looms

Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants have been further exposed as leaders gather for an emergency meeting in Brussels.
Slovakia is launching a legal challenge to mandatory quotas that were passed in a majority last Tuesday.

Hungary's PM defended its "democratic rights" and proposed a radical budgetary revamp to raise funds.
The summit will focus on tightening EU borders and aiding neighbours of Syria, from where many migrants come, media reports have said.
European Council President Donald Tusk called for "a concrete plan" to be agreed on Wednesday that would address how to secure the EU's external borders, "in place of the arguments and the chaos we have witnessed in the past weeks".

Countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, he said, "are expecting our help to solve their refugee problems without thinking about how they can help us".
Ahead of the summit yesterday, the European Commission set out proposals for managing the refugee crisis. They include:
The UK has opted against taking part in the relocation scheme and has its own plan to resettle migrants directly from Syrian refugee camps.
The scale of the problem was highlighted again yesterday, when Croatia revealed that 44,000 migrants - including 8,750 last Tuesday - had arrived there since Hungary completed a fence along its border with Serbia last week.

European Council President Donald Tusk has told EU leaders that this summit should focus on policies they can implement to help each other, rather than a long list of issues to use to blame each other.
It is both an appeal for practical progress, and an acknowledgement that the political atmosphere has become pretty toxic.
Several leaders will arrive in Brussels angry that their governments have been outvoted on the issue of relocating tens of thousands of refugees. But Mr Tusk will be keen to avoid recrimination.