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2020-04-10 Europe
EU: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic Broke EU Law
[Gatestone] The ruling effectively removes the sovereignty of EU member states to make their own decisions regarding the keeping of public law, order and national security in the case of EU migration policies, if those decisions conflict with EU obligations.

In addition, the ruling of the court goes against evidence that migration flows into Europe do indeed constitute a real security danger that has cost European lives.
Continental Suicide Pact™
How national authorities are supposed to distinguish between actual "war refugees" and terrorists impersonating war refugees is not suggested by the Court, which appears curiously uninterested in dealing with the reality of migration.

The Court's ruling does not only contradict facts and common sense. It sends the distinct signal to foreign regimes, such as that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that sending migrants to the continent for whatever purpose, even political blackmail, will be successful, because European institutions, such as the EU Court of Justice, will do their utmost to ensure that even the most rebellious EU member states, such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, will be forced to receive them.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic broke EU law when they refused to take in migrants under the European Union's September 2015 relocation agreement. During the 2015 migrant crisis, EU leaders agreed to relocate 160,000 migrants and refugees EU-wide, assigning each EU member state a fixed quota from the camps in Italy and Greece, where migrants and refugees were arriving in record numbers. However, the Czech Republic accepted only 12 of the 2,000 refugees assigned it, while Hungary and Poland took in none.

In 2017, the EU took Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over that refusal to take migrants. On April 2, 2020, the CJEU ruled against the three countries. The ruling followed the October 2019 recommendation by the Court's Advocate General, legal advisor to the Court, which said that EU law must be followed and that the EU's principle of solidarity "necessarily sometimes implies accepting burden-sharing".

In its judgment, the Court dismissed the three countries' argument that they were entitled to refuse the relocation scheme based on concerns for the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security. The Court agreed that those concerns constituted legitimate reasons to derogate from obligations of EU law[1]. However, the Court ruled that EU member states refusing to take in migrants under the relocation scheme could only legitimately do so if they proved, "following a case-by-case investigation, on consistent, objective and specific evidence that provides grounds for suspecting that the applicant in question represents an actual or potential danger"....
Posted by Clem 2020-04-10 07:44|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Some laws are written to be broken.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-10 08:59||   2020-04-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Good luck enforcing it.

Also, along with Italy I have found the next wave of exits.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-10 09:09||   2020-04-10 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 One can only hope.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-10 09:34||   2020-04-10 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The ruling effectively removes the sovereignty of EU member states to make their own decisions regarding the keeping of public law, order and national security in the case of EU migration policies, if those decisions conflict with EU obligations.

You and who's army? Brussels is Moscow just with better suits.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-10 09:35||   2020-04-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Whelp.
Guess we'll have to leave then.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-10 10:07||   2020-04-10 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 What's to stop a bloc of countries simply refusing to remit $ to Brussels? You want 'lawless' - give them financial lawless, good and hard.
Posted by Raj 2020-04-10 10:48||   2020-04-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 How do you say "Bite me!" in Eastern European?
Seriously, is the EU trying to commit suicide?
Posted by SteveS 2020-04-10 11:24||   2020-04-10 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 So the course is clear for Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. They must exit the EU.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-10 11:28||   2020-04-10 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Italy was already giving Brussels the jitters. Now, after all that overwhelming support (sarc) out of the EU to support bella Italia during this CV crisis, I wouldn't be surprised if the calls to leave the EU grow louder. Buona fortuna a tutti!
Posted by Clem 2020-04-10 11:53||   2020-04-10 11:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Imagine the EU breaking up.


I do.
Posted by no mo uro 2020-04-10 20:42||   2020-04-10 20:42|| Front Page Top

#11 When the EEC (and its prior names/structures) became less a trade/tariff community and more a political union, that is when things really went down hill, especially one essentially run by France and Germany. Surely after the fall of the Soviet Union, eastern European countries were probably eager to "join Western Europe". Psych!
Posted by Clem 2020-04-10 21:15||   2020-04-10 21:15|| Front Page Top

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