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2019-11-03 Europe
EU Official: Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic Broke EU law by Refusing to Take in Migrants
[LI] Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic are in breach of the European Union law by refusing to take in migrants under the bloc’s mandatory migrant quota scheme, the top EU legal adviser says. According to Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, who advises the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the members countries of the bloc have "no legitimate security grounds to reject the quota scheme" that proposes to settle hundreds of thousands migrants arriving in Europe.

The eastern European countries are facing legal action at the top EU court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), for blocking the EU plan to assign each country with a quota of migrants to take in. The Eastern European countries have so far frustrated Brussels’ efforts to impose mandatory quotas on member states for the mass resettlement of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East swarming the continent through the Mediterranean route.

Poland rejected the Advocate General’s statement citing the government’s duty to ensure the safety of its people. "Our actions were dictated by the interests of Polish citizens and the need for protection against uncontrolled migration," Piotr Muller, spokesman for the Polish government, said.

The German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported the legal advisory given to the top EU court:
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 01:46|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Call the Wehrmacht?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-03 02:06||   2019-11-03 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably the main reason Englanders want a brexit, and why won't be allowed one. If it were to exit, all these countries would consider the possibility of reclaiming their sovereignty.

EC is the expert on brexit though. Or Brexitnot.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 02:13||   2019-11-03 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed, this IS the main reason for Brexit, just as the righteous and wholly understandable fury at the illegal immigration Shitshow this side of the pond explains Trump's rise.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 04:16||   2019-11-03 04:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I think these folks in Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic have had enough invasions and occupations over the last 100 years. they have come a long way so don’t expect them to just give it away.
Posted by Airandee 2019-11-03 05:47||   2019-11-03 05:47|| Front Page Top

#5 You refuse to commit cultural suicide. That's against the law.

The law's an ass.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-03 06:14||   2019-11-03 06:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The EU official has spoken - now let him enforce it.
Posted by Raj 2019-11-03 07:02||   2019-11-03 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 And the horse he rode in on, Raj.
Posted by AlanC 2019-11-03 07:10||   2019-11-03 07:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Veterans of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and not keen on being forced into another totalitarian structure. I cannot blame them.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 07:13||   2019-11-03 07:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ^These particular countries also have a better understanding of Islam - if only because they fought it up to 18th century.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-03 07:24||   2019-11-03 07:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I think comments 1-9 have just about covered it. My work here is done.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-03 07:36||   2019-11-03 07:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Amazing how Germany makes up laws for it's vassal states on the fly.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-03 10:10||   2019-11-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 @Dron
Don't expect NEWS like this to be reported in any depth by the UK MSM.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-03 10:11||   2019-11-03 10:11|| Front Page Top

#13  NEWS like this to be reported in any depth by the UK MSM.

Of course not. Who'll cover the latest biting tension growing between Meghan and 'the family' ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 10:30||   2019-11-03 10:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Great discussion about multiculturalism, not just in the EU, with Christopher Caldwell here and on Hungary and Orban in particular here.

From "Hungary and the Future of Europe":

...since there would not be enough imported Hungarians to man the Hungarian economy, it seemed [to the EU leadership that] Hungary would need to do what western European countries had done: open the doors to mass immigration from the Arab world and Africa.

On this, Orbán would not budge. As he saw it, the combination of Anglophone Hungarian businessmen and waves of manual laborers disinclined to learn the beautiful, impossible Magyar language would mean the end of Hungary.

Migration from the south [by Muslims], Orban believed, whether orderly or disorderly, would produce a special kind of country, of the sort that did not exist in western Europe until the most recent decades but which had been the norm in Hungary’s Balkan neighborhood until quite recently—not just in the Habsburg and Romanov empires but also in 20th-century Yugoslavia. Such countries, he told a group of Christian intellectuals in 2017, run the risk of having their culture wiped out:

"They will become countries with mixed populations, with a Christian element and a non-Christian element which has a strong religious identity. And if I judge the laws of biology and mathematics correctly, the ratio between these two elements will continuously shift away from Christianity and towards the non-Christian religious communities…. [H]ow this will end is mathematically foreseeable."

Orbán wanted desperately to avoid that. “[W]e want a Hungarian Hungary and a European Europe,” he said.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 10:52||   2019-11-03 10:52|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ this is the thoughtcrime of the Hungarian and other leaders. They want Europe to be European. Hungary for Hungarians, Poland for Poles etc.

What could be more horrifying to the Global Grifters?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 10:55||   2019-11-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#16 That's just the thing. If Hungary is for Hungarians, Poland for Poles, Britain for the British, Germany for Germans... what will be for the globalist arbiters of Ewwrope ? The experiment will have failed. Oh noze !
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 11:04||   2019-11-03 11:04|| Front Page Top

#17 What could be more reminiscent of WW2 than Germany telling Poland etc. to accept their spillover folk?

The whole EUSSR reminds mind of the failures of National Socialist Germany.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-03 11:46||   2019-11-03 11:46|| Front Page Top

#18 Trumpian awakening about the deep state in Brussels. Massive calls of racism and corruption by the offender. Sounds familiar!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-11-03 11:52||   2019-11-03 11:52|| Front Page Top

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