After eight years of division, fights and threats, the 27 reached an agreement in principle on how to share or share responsibilities and costs. The aim was to come out with a pact, or at least sell it that way, but the discrepancies remain deep and among the delegations, at the Council's headquarters in Luxembourg, there have been more faces of concern than relief.
The text must now go through the European Parliament, which although divided has always called for relocations to be mandatory and binding, not optional or exchangeable for money.