The EU summit on Thursday (15 October) should demonstrate a simmering down of tempers between some Central European countries and their EU partners, weeks after a divisive debate over the relocation of refugees.
Three countries from the Visegrad group, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech republic, opposed EU Commission plans to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers in member states. The group's fourth country, Poland, only opposed the plan for a while.
After leaders and media from western a...
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