Earlier this month, EU home affairs ministers voted by a qualified majority to introduce mandatory relocation of migrants, with countries unwilling to host them being required to pay a fee of €20,000 for each migrant. Hungary and Poland opposed the agreement. 

At the European Council summit in Brussels on 29-30 June, Poland and Hungary argued that any EU system on migration relocations should be voluntary and say that they will refuse to pay the €20,000 fines. They also complained that the draft laws in question should have been subject to unanimity among EU member states rather than a qualified majority which allowed them to be outvoted. 

European Council President Charles Michel published a post-summit communique on the migration discussions. He took note that "Poland and Hungary declared that, in the context of the ongoing work on the Pact on Migration and Asylum, in line with the previous European Council conclusions of December 2016, June 2018 and June 2019, there is a need to find consensus on an effective migration and asylum policy, that, in the context of solidarity measures, relocation and resettlement should be on a voluntary basis and that all forms of solidarity should be considered equally valid and not serve as a potential pull factor for irregular migration".

For more detailed information, please read the conclusions by the President of the European Council on the external dimension of migration and other related articles such as "EU leaders fail to resolve migration dispute with Poland and Hungary".