“How can we order someone to go to a given country, and order a sovereign state it has to accept that?”
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On Tuesday, Germany’s top domestic security chief said that hardline Islamists in the country might recruit supporters among new refugees and migrants – though many of those migrants are, in fact, fleeing hardline Islamists in the form of the terrorist group ISIS.
EU Ministers are in Brussels to discuss relocating 120,000 people.
Croatia started letting trucks carrying food from Serbia across the border on Tuesday afternoon, but Serbian officials want all cargo traffic must be restored. Prime Minister Sobotka said following a government meeting Wednesday that the Tuesday’s decision will be accepted.
The European Commission says that elements of the asylum policy not being implemented include legislation focused on speeding up asylum decisions, ensuring humane treatment of asylum-seekers and clarifying grounds for granting asylum. The armies of the Czech Republic and Hungary securing their borders are also securing the borders of Europe and of civilization.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico said he would rather breach the measure than accept the “diktat” of the majority.
“We have been refusing this nonsense from the beginning, and as a sovereign country we have the right to sue,” he added, saying his country would not submit to the quota as long as he leads it.
Romania’s president says his country can easily cope with the extra migrants the European Union wants it to receive, but disagrees with the way the matter was decided.
The interior minister meeting comes a day before leaders gather in Brussels for an emergency summit, with tightening borders and ramping up aid set to dominate the agenda.
With millions of Syrians forced into camps across the Middle East, tens of thousands crossing Europe on foot and hundreds washing up dead on beaches, America has promised to take in only 10,000 as refugees next year – a figure dwarfed by the up to one million Syrian refugees Germany is expecting to take in this year alone.
Last week, ministers approved a separate plan dating from May for relocating 40,000 refugees.
But the Czech government is not taking the reversal sitting down. He suggested raising payments to the European Union by members by 1 percent and cutting European Union spending by 1 percent, saying this would produce three billion euros for addressing the crisis.
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But United Nations refugee agency UNHCR criticised the plan for not going far enough, pointing out that the 120,000 people the bloc was seeking to share out were equivalent to just 20 days’ worth of arrivals at the current rate.
