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EU to put Poland, Hungary and Czechia in the dock for rejecting asylum
seekers
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The European Commission is to sue Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic at the Euro- pean Court of Justice (ECJ) for refusing to take in asylum seekers as part of a relocation plan launched by the EU two years ago, it announced on December 8.
Migrants arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The three members of the Visegrad Four political and cultural alliance are accused by the EU's exec- utive body of "non-compliance with their legal ob- ligations on relocation" and the ECJ could impose heavy fines. The government of the fourth Visegrad
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The IMF managing director Christine Lagarde spells out to Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko the need for an anticorruption court
The statement was published after Lagarde's phone conversation with Poroshenko on the same day.
Beneath the pleasantries of official statements like this, the international community is rapidly
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IMF lays down the law to Poroshenko as donors lose patience with Ukraine
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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has supported Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's agenda for the prompt submission of a bill on the mooted anti-corruption court to the nation's parliament, the Fund said in a statement on December 7.