V4 interior ministers want EU “hot spots” to serve as refugee detention facilities

In a joint memorandum issued in Prague on Tuesday, the interior ministers of the Visegrad Four countries again rejected the idea of compulsory refugee quotas for European Union states. The Czech minister of the interior, Milan Chovanec, announced the move at a news conference following a meeting with his counterparts from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The four called for the fulfilment of a commitment to establish functioning “hot spots” on the EU’s external borders; such centres should also be detention facilities with refugees not allowed to leave them until their identity is verified, they said.

Author: Ian Willoughby