Orban’s migration policy gets slapped down by EU court

Bloomberg

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak Premier Robert Fico suffered setbacks to their controversial migration policies at the European Union’s top court.
An adviser to the EU’s Court of Justice said provisional EU rules to relocate refugees from member states such as Greece and Italy, key entry points to the bloc, should also apply to Hungary and Slovakia.
The duo attacked the 2015 decision to impose an obligatory quota system forcing the relocation of asylum seekers away from Italy and Greece, which found themselves overwhelmed by an estimated 3,000 new arrivals every day during the summer of that year.
Advocate General Yves Bot of the EU Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion in Luxembourg on Wednesday that the quota system is “appropriate” to help “relieve the considerable pressure on the asylum systems of Italy and Greece following the migration crisis in the summer of 2015.”
Italy and Greece in the months July and August of 2015 faced an unprecedented surge in immigrants, with the arrival of 180,000 people in those two nations alone. This was 211 percent more people than the two preceding months, according to the EU.