New coalition government in Czech Republic opposes EU's migration pact
The populist administration headed by Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who leads the ANO party, is expected to formally reject the EU-wide pact and draft a new set of rules addressing migration and asylum issues. Speaking to journalists after his party’s election victory in October, Babis said the government intends to engage with other EU states in searching for what he described as practical solutions to migration that would be implemented beyond the bloc’s borders.
According to statements attributed to a former interior minister, refusing to adopt the EU pact could leave the Czech Republic without certain mechanisms designed to curb irregular migration, while neighboring countries would retain those tools.
Opposition to the agreement is not limited to Prague. Hungary’s prime minister has also dismissed the pact, declaring that his government would not allocate “a single dime on them.”
EU member states approved the Pact on Migration and Asylum in May 2024, despite resistance from several countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The agreement is intended to overhaul border and asylum procedures and introduce a system aimed at spreading responsibility for asylum seekers more evenly across the union.
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