EU Ministers are due to meet to try to resolve the dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.
On Tuesday, a group of Central European state ministers resisted calls for EU members to accept mandatory quotas as the migrant crisis worsens.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants had created deep divisions within the EU.
Home Affairs Ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Tuesday will be hoping to forge a consensus ahead of an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Wednesday.
After talks on Monday between Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, all of whom oppose quotas, Czech Foreign Minister, Lubomir Zaoralek, insisted that the four were still “absolutely dedicated” to finding a solution.
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said two weeks ago, that obligatory quotas were “a first step” towards a more permanent scheme to deal with the influx.
But mandatory quotas had been dropped while a voluntary relocation scheme is now on the table.
