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FULL TEXT of article: The European Union on Wednesday moved ahead with legal action against Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic for refusing to comply with a controversial E.U. scheme to redistribute refugees and migrants for resettlement across the bloc. Hungary’s conservative government has labeled it the “George Soros plan” after the Hungarian-American financier who last year pledged to invest $500 million in support of European migrant resettlement. The E.U.’s executive Commission announced it was moving to the next stage of its “infringement procedure” – the three eastern European countries have a month to respond to a formal request to comply and if their replies are deemed unsatisfactory the case may be referred to the E.U.’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Also on Wednesday, that court heard the opinion of a top E.U. legal official who argued that it should dismiss a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia against the E.U. quota scheme, which aims to redistribute and settle up to 120,000 refugees and migrants among member-states over a two-year period that ends in late September. Hungary and Slovakia question the legal basis for the decision taken two years ago by the European Council, which comprises heads of government and top E.U. figures. But E.U. advocate-general Yves Bot argued that the decision was legal since the migrant influx was a clearly-identified emergency situation. The court tends to rule in line with the advocate-general’s opinion. Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said in reaction that Bot’s legal opinion “completely fits with the process that is called the Soros plan.” “With all the pomp of a head of state, Soros was received in Brussels and afterwards, interestingly, all European institutions put even greater pressure on Hungary and central European countries to receive illegal migrants,” Hungarian state news agency MTI quoted him as telling a press conference. Another government official, secretary of state for justice Pal Volner, also invoked the financier in his reaction to Bot’s legal opinion, saying the advocate-general has joined E.U. institutions in implementing “the Soros plan.” “The main elements of his opinion are political, in effect hiding the lack of legal arguments,” MTI quoted Volner as telling reporters in Budapest. Last week Hungary’s prime minister accused senior E.U. bureaucrats of being “ in alliance” with Soros to flood Europe with asylum seekers. The E.U. “relocation and resettlement” scheme aims to ease the burden on Italy and Greece, which took in large numbers of migrants in recent years.