(Politico) Bitter infighting on Wednesday derailed EU ambassadors’ attempts to finish off the last plank of the EU’s flagship migration reform.
As a result, officials will have to break for the summer without completing work on the overall package, which would reshape how the EU processes and relocates migrants across the continent.
The stumbling block proved to be the so-called “crisis regulation,” which details measures to lift pressure on EU border countries facing spikes in people seeking asylum.
Frontline countries, mostly in the south, are keen to be relieved of certain requirements if arrival numbers skyrocket, but northern countries are wary of rescinding some rules.
