Alexander Kuranov. Quotas for the admission of immigrants from countries-members of the EU, the conclusion of which was made on Wednesday by the European Commission without regard to the opinion of these countries and the immigrants themselves would not solve the problems of migration in the long-term horizon, said on Wednesday correspondents Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.
"A package of concrete proposals and measures, which on Wednesday unveiled the European Commission and who, furthermore, is designed for a mandatory distribution of immigrants between countries of the EU, does not take into account decisions of the April meeting of the European Council, says Sobotka.- Mandatory Quotas and the distribution of migrants without regard to the opinion of these States, as well as immigrants themselves will not solve the problem in the long-term horizon ".
review of the premiere, the experience of previous years shows that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are not for immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, the region with whom they wish to associate Their future.
"On the contrary, for immigrants from the former Soviet Union we are here to achieve their aspirations," he noticed Sobotka. On the first day of the week in the decision of the Czech government on the issue of migration was particularly called the attention of Brussels on the potential flow of migrants from the territory of Ukraine.
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a quota system for the distribution among member States of the EU over the next 2 years 40 thousand immigrants from countries of the 3rd world that are stuck now in the majority, within Italy, and Greece. According to this plan, the Czech Republic will have to take 1328 migrants. Also, the EC took the initiative on payment of 6 million euros from EU funds for each refugee.
in addition, the Commission proposes for 2 years to take in EU States 20 thousand migrants. In this case, the Czech Republic would have to take another 525 people.
as long as the story is about the proposals of the EC, which is Expected to consider each member country of the EU. Have that for the approval of such decisions will be sufficient the consent of a qualified majority of EU countries, which would represent More than 65% of EU citizens.
first spoke negatively about the idea of quotas, the head of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman." Refugees need to assist where they continuously reside, not to entice them to foreign lands, not to bring them in an alien environment, " he noted.
While Zeman emphasized and the possible danger that comes from blindly accepting European States migrants from countries of the 3rd world. In his vision, " among immigrants is quite have the ability to be jihadists that we will vanest on the air and the Prague castle (the residence of the kings and presidents of the Czech Republic - ed.)".
His disagreement with the initiative of the EC, Except the Czech Republic, expressed Also France, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States.
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