Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke the law by refusing to take in asyl...
BRUSSELS - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke the law by refusing to take in asylum seekers coming to the European Union during the chaotic summer of 2015, an advisory body to the bloc’s highest court said on Thursday.
The three ex-communist countries on the EU’s eastern flank refused to take in any of those refugees and migrants, citing security concerns, and questioned the legal grounds for the EU assigning each country a fixed quota of people to accept. Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller, responding to the Advocate General’s opinion, said that “ensuring security for our citizens is the most important goal of the government’s policies. Out actions were dictated by the interests of Polish citizens and the need for protection against uncontrolled migration”.
In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants from the Middle East reached the EU, an influx that left the bloc scrambling to provide shelter and security.
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