Nations are starting to rebel against Jean-Claude Juncker's plans to include more funding for migrants in the EU's next budget, mainly from Italy's new coalition government of Lega and the Five Star Movement.
Tensions reached fever pitch when Matteo Salvini, Rome's new interior minister and deputy prime minister, blocked a ship carrying 630 migrants, including seven pregnant women, stranded in the Mediterranean.
With Malta also refusing to accept the Aquarius vessel operated by the charities Medecins Sans Frontieres and Sos Mediterranee, Spain's new prime minister Pedro Sanchez instructed port officials to welcome the ship into Valencia.
Hungary's praise for Italy's rejection of the migrants comes as another sign of the EU's growing division over how to handle a future immigration crisis like that of 2015.
European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos warned Brussels the bloc "cannot afford another repetition of 2015".
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