Czech PM pledges no rash response to compulsory refugee quotas

The Czech Republic respects the European Union’s recent decision on compulsory refugee quotas and would not benefit from taking any rash or hasty steps in this regard, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Thursday. Neither hysteria nor political isolation would help the country, he said, adding that Prague still believed that redistribution up refugees would not resolve anything. Mr. Sobotka reiterated in a lower house debate that the Czech Republic would not follow Slovakia’s path of taking the matter to the European Court of Justice. His government had long argued that migrants should be accepted on a voluntary basis.

Author: Ian Willoughby