The Visegrad countries and Croatia have initiated conversations on refugees

Alexander Kuranov. The presidents of the Visegrad four (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary - V4), as well as Croatia began on Thursday in the Hungarian city of balatonf?red, a two-day dialogues on issues related to illegal refugees in the European Union, said the website.

"the head of the V4 countries and Croatia have plans in the process of the two-day meeting on the shores of lake Balaton to discuss problems encountered in the field and in General in the EU due to the large influx of illegal migrants from countries of the 3rd world ", - is informed in the report.

Polish Director Andrzej Duda made a motion to amend the agenda of the meeting also the issue of the construction of a new Baltic gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which gives the opportunity to provide gas supplies from Russia to the European Union bypassing Ukraine and parts of Central Europe.

The meeting of the presidents began with a long delay related to the fact that the plane of Polish of the head due to bad weather was forced to land not on lake Balaton and in Budapest.

The meeting, held in balatonf?red be attended by the Presidents of Hungary, Janos Ader, Poland Andrzej Duda, Czech Republic - Milos Zeman, Slovakia - Andrej Kiska and Croatia - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.

The migration crisis in the European Union largely affected the countries of Central Europe, most of Hungary and Croatia, through the territory where the illegal refugees want to go to Austria and Germany. In order to stop the flow, the Hungarian government was built in August-September the fence on the border of his country with Serbia and in the near future will finish the construction of a fence on the boundary line with Croatia.

To enhance the security of its southern borders, which at the same time are external borders of the Schengen area, the Hungarian government started since the end of September to use soldiers in conjunction with combat equipment, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers.

in addition, Budapest has addressed with the petition for support in border protection to the partners from V4. On Thursday, the head of the interior Ministry of the Czech Republic Milan khovanets wrote on his page on Twitter that Prague would send to Hungary 50 police and 100 soldiers, together with appropriate equipment, including vehicles and night vision devices. In a few days obliged to give a response to the request of Budapest and partners from Bratislava and Warsaw.

at the presidential meeting at the lake Balaton, Andrzej Duda, informs the website of the Sme is referring to the office of the Polish President, also wants to try to cross the rift that emerged between the V4 countries at the end of September, when the meeting of heads the Ministry of internal Affairs of EU member States in Brussels, the Ambassador of Poland, despite the original agreements, voted for the introduction of compulsory quotas on the admission of immigrants to the EU. The head of the Ministry of interior of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, insisted on the voluntary principle in the reception of migrants, remained at the September meeting in the minority. Director Duda was subjected to this harsh criticism of the behavior of the leader of the Polish interior Ministry.


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