‘Atrocious Middle Eastern Policy’ Sets East and West Europe on Collision Course
SputnikNews.com
30.06.2017
Eastern European countries are right to refuse Brussels’ refugee quotas, since the flow of refugees is the fault of Western countries, former Slovakian Prime Minister Jan Carnogursky told RIA Novosti.
Earlier this month, the EU Commission launched legal proceedings against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for non-compliance with the EU’s refugee quotas.
In September 2015, the EU Council forced through its plan to impose a quota system to redistribute 160,000 migrants from Greece and Italy across the EU by September 2017.
The plan was passed by the majority of EU interior ministers, but four of the bloc’s members voted against the measure: Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and the Czech Republic. Finland abstained from the vote.
Since then, Hungary and Poland have not resettled a single refugee, while the Czech Republic initially accepted 12 people but has refused to take anyone else since August 2016. Between them, the three countries were supposed to take 11,000 refugees under the plan.
Former Slovakian Prime Minister Jan Carnogursky told RIA Novosti that the migrant flow from Syria to Europe is a result of Western European politics in the Middle East, and the Western insistence that Eastern Europe bear its share of the burden is unfair.
“People can’t survive in their homeland for economic reasons, so they go to the EU and we are made to take them,” Carnogursky said.
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