A Czech opposition group has called for nationwide referendums on whether the nation should quit the European Union and reject last week's EU decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum-seekers among its nations.

The refugee decision was approved by EU ministers this week despite opposition from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Slovakia is planning to challenge the move but the Czech government said it would respect it.

The parliamentary Dawn group says the moves are to protest the EU refugee plan. It says the Czech Republic is a sovereign state that can take care of itself.

Dawn chairman Miroslav Lidinsky said Tuesday: "We want to join Britain to send a message to the European Union that it needs to reform."

Another parliamentary opposition group, the Freedom and Direct Democracy movement, said Tuesday it wants the government to face a parliamentary no-confidence vote over the same issue.

Hungarian lawmakers have expanded the number of courts dealing with migrant cases.

A bill approved Tuesday in parliament says courts in the southern cities of Pecs and Zalaegerszeg will now be able to handle trials for those caught entering the country illegally or appeals by migrants whose requests for asylum have been rejected.

Earlier this month, Hungary made it a crime to cut through or climb over its newly erected border fence.

At present, only courts in Szeged near the Serbian border, where Hungary has built a 4-meter (13-foot) fence with razor-wire, are dealing with such migrant cases. Hungary is building similar fence on the Croatian border.

Police say over 280,000 migrants have entered Hungary so far this year, nearly all on their way to richer countries like Germany.

French President François Hollande says Europe was "too slow" to realize the gravity of violence in Syria and Iraq and should now work to integrate the hundreds of thousands of their refugees reaching European shores.

Hollande told a trade union meeting Tuesday in Paris that Europeans wrongly "believed the tragedies occurring (in the Mideast) would have no consequences for Europe."

France was slow to offer help to waves of migrants this year, but is now trying to speed up asylum efforts. Hollande urged Europeans to "integrate these refugees socially and professionally, to train the children, to provide language classes to the parents ... and allow them to find a job."

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, speaking at the same event, said "the refugees deserve our solidarity."