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Slovakia to file lawsuit over EU's mandatory migrant quota

Xinhua, November 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Slovakia will submit a lawsuit over the EU's mandatory migrant resettlement quota before Dec. 18 to the Court of Justice of the EU, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Friday.

"The lawsuit is ready and we're only assessing some of its aspects now," stressed Fico, adding some other countries may join Slovakia's initiative.

Hungary's Parliament on Nov. 17 okayed a bill that committed the government to appeal to the court and seek the scrapping of the measure introducing the quotas.

"We're in talks with our Polish partners as to what their viewpoint is," said Fico. The new Polish government has said that the previous cabinet's agreement to accept 7,000 refugees based on the quota scheme was a mistake.

The lawsuit is to be broached at a summit of the Visegrad Four countries in Prague on Dec. 3. In the quota announcement made by Brussels in September, Slovakia was supposed to accept 802 immigrants from among the 120,000 currently in Italy and Greece. Endit