Czech Republic and Poland Call on EU to Do More on Illegal Immigration
Published on October 10, 2024
The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Poland jointly said that the European Union has to do more to tackle illegal migration and condemned the practice of renewing border checks between the 27 member states, on Wednesday. “We have agreed that it’s necessary to do more,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after meeting with Poland’s Donald Tusk and other members of his government in Prague. Fiala said that sweeping reforms to the bloc’s asylum system endorsed by EU nations in May are “insufficient,” and need to be more strict. Hungary and Poland, which have long opposed any obligation for countries to host illegal migrants or pay for their care, voted against the package but were unable to block it....