Overview
- The rules adopted this week require EU members to ease pressure on frontline states by relocating asylum seekers, paying €20,000 per person not taken, or funding host countries.
- The pact sets EU-wide annual minima of 30,000 relocations and €600 million in solidarity contributions.
- On November 11, the European Commission identified Poland, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Croatia and Austria as under increased migratory pressure and invited exemption requests for 2026.
- Euronews, cited by TASS and RIA, reports that Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia reject all three options and are preparing lawsuits.
- An unnamed diplomat quoted by Euronews warned that many states want to avoid redistribution and that widespread refusal would limit the Commission’s ability to levy fines.