BRUSSELS’ decision to fine countries €250,000 for every refugee they refuse to admit has been blasted as BLACKMAIL

Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have all lashed out at the decision, which will leave countries who wish to control their own borders with bills of hundreds of millions of euros.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said the plan, which was announced today, was a “dead-end street.”

He said: “Regarding the fines proposed by the European Commission, it is blackmailing.”

Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak echoed these claims and said it was “a bad system – it makes no sense.”

Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak was the third minister to slam the proposals.

He said: “In the middle of these very sensitive talks, a proposal is put on the table that sets us back nine months and does not reflect reality in some aspects.”

GETTY – EXPRESS European ministers have slammed the proposed fines as “blackmail”

The huge financial threat has been introduced to prevent states from choosing who to accept in their countries. The deliberately high fine of €250,000 per asylum seeker will leave countries with no choice but to accept thousands of migrants – or face huge penalties.Poland, for example, would be forced to pay €1.5billion if they kept their borders closed to the 6,200 migrants on their quota. Hungary and Slovakia are currently disputing the migrant quotas in EU courts.

GETTY The EU is desperately trying to clear a bottleneck of 100,000 migrants in Greece and Italy