CTK agency: Czechs not likely to challenge European Union migrant quotas at court

The Ministers were in agreement that complex and comprehensive solutions must be further explored to tackle the root causes of migration, which includes an effective return and readmission policy, the disruption of human smuggling networks and setting up multifunctional refugee centres outside the EU.

He said Hungary is bringing the 1,000 people expected Tuesday to its side of the border by train. “That’s my task, that’s the direction of what I will do tomorrow”, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told reporters Monday.

The V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) reject the European Commission’s plan to mandatorily redistribute the 120,000 asylum seekers from the EU countries facing the biggest influx of migrants.

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.

“We are learning in this refugee situation that we are all connected to each other and our lives are affected if bad things happen elsewhere”, she said.

Reservations about the quotas have also been expressed by the Baltic countries and some Western politicians.

Czech Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Belobradek said in a newspaper interview Saturday that he didn’t think the EU’s proposed quota system was legal and threatened the bloc with a lawsuit.

The analysis was sent to Luxembourg, now presiding the European Union, Monday.

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. The Prague Daily Monitor is not responsible for its content.