Hungary's unused refugee relief quota can go to other states, while relocation refuseniks won't pay fines, according to the latest EU compromise on the migrant crisis.
EU ambassadors agreed the new ideas on Monday (21 September), EU sources said.
But diplomats are meeting again on Tuesday morning to tweak the text of an EU Council decision on sharing refugees.
The talks come ahead of an EU interior ministers' meeting later in the day.
If ministers fail to overcome ob...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.