Poland and Hungary’s opposition to the European Union pact (EU) on migration and asylum prevented the informal summit in Granada from approving a final declaration on migration endorsed by all member states and, in its place, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, published his own text on this issue, according to community sources.

Later, in a press conference with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the acting president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, he confirmed his approval, pointing out that it will “allow strategic orientation”. “We want to see the priorities, how to act together and how to get a budget. There has been an exchange of opinions, discrepancies have been detected but we must see the common points,” Michel said this Friday.

For her part, Von der Leyen has assured that “now”, a pact on migration “is underway and the negotiations are in the hands of the European Council and Parliament.” “It is likely to reach good port“added the president of the EC.

However, the leaders of the twenty-seven Member States did approve a joint declaration on the rest of the issues addressed at today’s informal summit in the Andalusian city.

The opposition of Poland and Hungary

The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, had already explained to the press when leaving the summit before it concluded that it was the “disagreement of several member states”in reference to Hungary and Poland, the reason for the blocking of the Granada Declaration that the delegations had negotiated in recent days.

Aside from migration, not included in the Granada Declaration approved by all the heads of State and Government of the EU, this Friday the leaders of the Twenty-seven They addressed topics such as the expansion of the community club with the future entry of new Member States. The migration debate in Grenada took place after the countries of the European Union reached an agreement on Wednesday on the Crisis Regulation, the last piece of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum that the States had not yet agreed upon.

This marks the end of the reform that the EU began to prepare four years ago. To carry out this agreement between the Member States, the unanimity of all the countries was not necessary. Poland and Hungary voted against and in recent months have criticized the fact that decisions on migration between EU countries are made by a qualified majority and not by unanimity.