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| Czech PM: ‘My Responsibility Is to Our Own Orphans' not ‘War Children' |
| 2018-09-18 |
| [Breitbart] Andrej Babiš has refused to bow to pressure demanding the Czech Republic resettle "war orphans" living in Greek camps, insisting that his responsibility as Prime Minister was to Czech orphans. In an interview with Právo on Saturday, the Slovak-born businessman restated his position that the nation would not accept a single so-called refugee, nor 50 Syrian orphans as demanded by opposition politicians and MEPs, who spent last week campaigning to bring unaccompanied minors over from Greece to the Czech Republic. "Since 2015 we have sent 2.5 billion koruna (87 million GBP) in development aid to countries helping refugees, sent physicians and experts to Syria and have treated 2,500 patients in Czech hospitals including a number of Syrian children since the migrant crisis," he said. "Why should we accept them? We also have orphans in the Czech Republic who we must be preparing for life," he told the daily newspaper, stating "I went into politics mainly to look after Czech citizens. Why should we be caring for Syrian orphans?" |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Somebody gets it. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-09-18 22:36 |
| #2 It's up to Czech charities to fund non-citizens. The state should only spend money on citizens, not virtue signalling opportunities for politicians. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-09-18 05:59 |
| #1 Right-wing values. To the Left, these values look like fascism. Everything other than their own values looks like fascism. It makes other values easier to dismiss when you call them fascism. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-09-18 01:19 |