Slovakia: Juncker optimist about a deal on migration by June
http://bit.ly/2EHRmPb | "Slovakia should be joining this mainstream in favor of solidarity" to welcome migrants and it's up to its government choosing "instruments of solidarity to offer to the EU", the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said today during a joint point with the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, in Brussels.
Juncker said to be "completely convinced that by June Slovakia and EU will "find a way to express the best possible solidarity of Slovakia." "We are against quotas but we don't only want to say no, we propose alternatives and we will say how we imagine our contribute and our form of solidarity, we should have an open debate, aiming for a consensus," the Slovak Premier added.
Pellegrini also reminded that Bratislava has already offered alternatives to the current asylum system, such as the accommodation of asylum seekers from Austria and the contribution to the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa "in order to alleviate the burden for Italy." The so called 'Visegrad Four' (V4) group, composed by Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland, has always rejected the emergency redistribution quotas set out in the Dublin migration policy reform.