An informal EU summit in Granada, Spain, was overshadowed by the prime ministers of Hungary and Poland, who opposed the section of a joint declaration that focused on migration.
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00:00 The informal European summit in Granada ended in impasse as the 27 EU leaders
00:06 could not find an agreement on migration. Earlier Hungary and Poland were heavily
00:10 critical of the fact that talks on the new migration pact are advancing despite
00:14 their opposition. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Friday morning
00:18 shocked everyone by saying legally we are being raped. So after hours and
00:23 hours of talks between heads of states and governments Budapest and Warsaw
00:27 blocked the joint declaration on the matter so it was only the president of
00:30 the European Council that could make a statement.
00:34 We must protect the external borders of the European Union. We must be in support of the countries that are in the forefront to protect the borders of the European Union. And we must be more active, more operational to dismantle the criminal groups that abuse distress, that abuse vulnerabilities. Because it is not the criminal groups that must decide who has the right or not to access European territory.
00:59 Leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation on technology, defense, energy independence
01:04 and the engagement of the EU with the rest of the world. On the enlargement of
01:09 the bloc, the EU 27 called on candidate countries to speed up reforms. The
01:13 president of the European Commission reiterated that there is no fast-track
01:17 entry into the EU. The accession process to the European Union is a merits-based
01:25 one. This was very clear also today in our discussion. No shortcuts, no
01:31 automated accession to the European Union. It's merits-based. On the day before the
01:37 EU summit, Grenada hosted the biggest annual gathering of EU and non-EU
01:42 countries of the continent called the European Political Community. But
01:45 breakthrough is missing on key conflicts like the Nagorno-Karabakh in the
01:48 Caucasus and the one between Serbia and Kosovo.
01:55 With this informal summit of EU leaders, the two days of international meetings
01:59 end here in Grenada. Two meetings in which, despite the meeting of more than
02:04 50 presidents and prime ministers, have been closed without clear progress and
02:08 with few results. Of course, they have served to reinforce the international role of
02:12 the current president of the government in the functions of Spain, Pedro Sánchez,
02:16 who is negotiating his investment. Aida Sánchez Alonso, Euronews, Grenada.
02:21 (whooshing)