BERLIN (Sputnik) — European countries that resist to share responsibilities to resettle migrants coming to the European Union may be subjected to legal action, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Saturday.
"It is necessary to take a fast decision [on distribution of migration load]. Europe is a legal community. The issue will be resolved by legal means in case there are no other ways to settle it," Steinmeier told Der Spiegel newspaper.
The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in an effort to reach wealthy European states, such as Germany and Sweden.
Countries like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania have been opposing EU mandatory quota scheme to share 160,000 refugees.
