EU leaders had ‘battle’ over migration at summit - Hungary’s PM

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban used war metaphors to describe the scale of division over migration issues within the EU on Friday. Countries in central and eastern Europe have held out against taking in more refugees, refusing quotas. In a Facebook video subtitled in English, Orban described a dinner at an EU summit in Brussels. He said: “It’s 12:40am. We struggled with each other till now. It was close combat, a type of political close combat.” He said the Poles, Hungarians, Czechs and Slovaks “did well in battle” against those wanting them to take in refugees, who are languishing in camps in Italy and Greece, AP reports. “We could not convince our adversaries,” Orban admitted, saying the battle would continue at the next scheduled EU summit in March.