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Czech minister wants NATO to help guard EU against migrants
Babis minister, are the biggest threat to Europe
25 August, 17:52
(ANSA-AP) - PRAGUE - The Czech Republic's finance minister has
called for NATO to get involved in helping protect the European
Union's external border against the influx of migrants. Andrej
Babis says "we have to defend the Schengen (borderless) zone. We
have to engage NATO." Talking on Czech public television on
Tuesday, Babis called the migrants, most of whom are fleeing
bloody conflicts, "the biggest threat to Europe." Unlike some
other EU states, the Czech Republic has not been significantly
hit by the recent wave of asylum-seekers, though numbers have
been on the rise. In June, the Czech Republic was one of the
countries that helped block a proposed plan for EU member
countries to take in set numbers of the refugees arriving in the
EU. (ANSA-AP).
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