Slovakia in legal challenge to migrant quotas
Premier, vote of EU interior ministers is invalid
02 December, 18:54
(ANSA-AP) - BRATISLAVA - Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, says his government has filed a complaint to challenge a European Union decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum-seekers among the bloc's 28 nations.
Immediately after the refugee-sharing move was approved by EU ministers in September, Fico said Slovakia was not ready to accept the plan and was planning a legal complaint at an EU court in Luxembourg.
Slovakia voted against the plan along with the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. Slovakia has not been hit by the recent wave of migrants heading for Germany and other rich Western countries.
Fico said the complaint was filed Wednesday morning and asks the court to rule that the decision taken by a majority vote of EU interior ministers is invalid. (ANSA-AP).
