Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that his country will not introduce the new European Union migration system.
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We say unequivocally that you cannot order a country to accept, in the case of Slovakia, up to 300 migrants about whom you know nothing, or to pay 20,000 euros for each, Fico said during a press conference. “This is not solidarity, this is dictatorship.” He added that his Social Democracy Course (SMER) party and Slovakia’s ruling coalition would vote against the introduction of relevant laws in the country’s parliament.
Previously, Poland also rejected rules for sharing among EU states the task of receiving refugees and migrants arriving outside normal border crossing points. Hungary also opposed it – Budapest considers this system “incompetent.”
After eight years of difficult negotiations with 27 member states, the European Parliament on April 10 approved a fundamental reform of the EU’s asylum procedure. The so-called migration pact, consisting of eight laws, is primarily designed to reduce the number of migrants, speed up asylum procedures and move them to the external borders of the EU.
Among other things, it is proposed that countries pay 20 thousand euros in compensation for each rejected migrant. However, this system is not enshrined in law, but must be negotiated between member states on a case-by-case basis.
The pact stipulates that in the future people will be more likely to be deported to countries of origin or transit countries that have been deemed safe. To this end, the European Union is trying to reach more agreements with third countries to allow them to take back migrants whose asylum claims have been rejected.
In order to come into force throughout the EU, this agreement must still be formally approved by member states, which will then have two years to implement it, reminds Reuters.
Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest do not have enough votes to independently terminate the agreement. All three countries have previously lost migration cases in the European Court.
Source: Racurs
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