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Czech Republic, Slovakia reject EU fine for refusal of migrants

Xinhua, June 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Czech Senate head Milan Stech and Slovak parliamentary chairman Andrej Danko agreed on Monday the two countries would reject the EU migrant quotas and the EU fine for their refusal to accept refugees.

To confirm the stance, Stech and Danko said they would do everything to stop such a mechanism being adopted. They said smaller countries should not fear expressing different opinions, and that bigger western countries should take the opinions of smaller countries seriously and should not punish them for their views. Danko said the planned fines for refusing to accept migrants -- at a proposed value of 250,000 euros (about 280,000 U.S. dollars) per rejected migrant -- was a sum that had different values in western and eastern Europe.

Recently, the European Commission proposed a reform of the EU asylum policy, according to which migrants would be automatically redistributed to other countries if there were a big number of asylum applicants in an EU member country. EU would fine states quarter for every migrant they reject. (1 euro=1.13 U.S. dollars) Endit