Disputes over migration in the European Union have overshadowed such topics as enlargement of the bloc and assistance to Ukraine, Bloomberg noted. At the end of the summit in Granada, Spain, European leaders failed to reach a unified position.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni provoked a diplomatic scandal by agreeing to hold an unscheduled meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on migration.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez felt it distracted participants from official talks and cancelled an upcoming joint press conference with Sunak in annoyance. And Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that attempts to force his country to accept decisions on migration could be compared to sexual violence.