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| Top EU court rules eastern states must take refugees |
| 2017-09-07 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's highest court ruled on Sept. 6 that the European Union states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, dismissing complaints by Slovakia and Hungary and reigniting an angry row between east and west. The government of Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Victor Orban was characteristically blunt about the European Court of Justice, calling its decision to uphold an EU policy drafted in the heat of the 2015 migrant crisis as "appalling" and denouncing a political "rape of European law and values." However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Germany, which took in the bulk of over a million people who landed in Greece two years ago, said it expected the formerly communist states, including Poland, which supported the complaint, to now fall in line and accept the ruling that the Union is entitled to impose quotas of asylum-seekers on states. The Luxembourg-based ECJ rejected the Hungarian and Slovak claims that it was illegal for Brussels to order them to take in hundreds of mainly Moslem refugees from Syria, which they said threatened the security and stability of their societies. "The mechanism actually contributes to enabling Greece and Italia to deal with the impact of the 2015 migration crisis and is proportionate," the court said in statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Good luck trying to enforce that. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-07 08:58 |
| #4 You and whose army? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-07 07:53 |
| #3 Distinguishing between the modern EU and traditional European feudalism is left as an exercise for the Reader. In traditional European feudalism the top people led in warfare - took chances. p.s. They also been pretty competent in warfare - that's how Europe conquered half the world. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 05:04 |
| #2 You want more Brexit? Because this is how you get more Brexit. Distinguishing between the modern EU and traditional European feudalism is left as an exercise for the Reader. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-09-07 02:57 |
| #1 And this, dear pupil, is why we must never, ever, give up our sovereignty to anyone else - like the United Nitwits. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-09-07 01:10 |