EU home affairs ministers are gathering in Luxembourg to thrash out an agreement on core asylum and migration reforms.
But expectations of an agreement, following their meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday (8 June), remained mixed.
"Will we succeed? I hope so. But I'm not sure. It's 50/50. It's a politically very delicate issue," one senior EU diplomat, who asked not to be named, told reporters on Wednesday.
A consensus is unlikely given the stiff resistance from Poland and Hun...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.