Hungary launches legal challenge over EU refugee quotas

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Hungary’s prime minister has said the country is filing a lawsuit against the European Union objecting to a mandatory plan to distribute refugees among members of the bloc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Viktor Orban said the suit would be filed at the European Court of Justice&period; The EU is looking redistribute 120&comma;000 asylum seekers already in the bloc among its 28 countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Parliament last month approved legislation obliging the government to challenge the EU quotas&comma; while Mr Orban has repeatedly said that Brussels overstepped its authority when it approved the scheme despite opposition from a handful of mainly Eastern European countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Orban earlier also described the migrant quotas as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;illegal&comma; unreasonable and unfair” and said it was wrong to force countries to take in migrants against their will&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Robert Fico&comma; the prime minister of neighbouring Slovakia&comma; said that his country had filed its own complaint against the EU quotas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; at least two people have been injured during clashes between groups of migrants and refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A man believed to be from Morocco died after touching high-power overhead railway cables when he climbed on top of a train carriage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Macedonia is allowing only people from Afghanistan&comma; Iraq and Syria to cross the border&comma; and groups of people from other nationalities have set up makeshift roadblocks&comma; preventing anyone from crossing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And Greek authorities said they have recovered the body of a woman and are still searching for three other missing migrants after their small boat sank in the eastern Aegean Sea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The boat was carrying a total of seven migrants&comma; and the coast guard said three survivors were pulled from the sea after Thursday’s capsizing off the island of Farmakonissi&period; The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately known&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Greece is at the forefront of Europe’s immigration crisis&comma; with more than 700&comma;000 people having crossed over so far this year from nearby Turkey&period; Hundreds have drowned in the effort&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e9ceae0">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e9ceae0'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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