[ April 19, 2024 ]
The European Union’s highest court just ruled that all member states are bound to take in their fair shares of refugees who come to Europe — even Slovakia and Hungary, two countries that have fought against the mass migration.
The ruling was met with immediate backlash by rebelling member states.
Slovakia and Hungary governments have been raised objections with the court over the matter of migration. The ruling now creates a sort of east-west dispute that’s going to exacerbate tensions among EU states.
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The Mediterranean migrant crisis which prompted mandatory quotas in 2015 for relocating asylum seekers from Greece and Italy has receded, easing immediate pressure to force compliance on nationalist leaders who are making electoral capital from lambasting the EU while benefiting from Brussels’ subsidies.
But defiant rejection from some ex-communist states that the EU accuses of slipping on democratic standards – Hungary called the judgment a political “rape” of EU law – indicated no let-up in tensions that are testing the Union’s internal cooperation.
In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is fighting for re-election against opponents who criticize her for taking in over a million migrants at the height of the drama, the interior minister threatened legal action against countries which fail to take in their allotted share of Syrian and other refugees.
But Hungary, where outspoken Prime Minister Viktor Orban has built border fences and made keeping out migrants a key plank of his re-election campaign for next year, branded the European Court of Justice ruling “appalling and irresponsible”.
“This decision jeopardizes the security and future of all of Europe,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
“Politics has raped European law and values.”
Italy, now the main destination for migrants taking to the sea following measures to block the route from Turkey to Greece and from Greece northward, has been prominent in calling for the wealthier Western states to cut EU subsidies to poor neighbors which do not show “solidarity” in taking in migrants.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has echoed that threat, warning Orban “solidarity is not a one-way street”. But the EU executive is also anxious to calm tensions ahead of negotiations on a new seven-year EU budget that will be all the harder because of a hole left by Britain’s imminent departure.
The Commission said on Wednesday it may seek fines at the ECJ within weeks for Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic if they do not start or resume taking people from the south. Poland and Hungary, which argue Muslim immigration is a threat to their national security and stability, have in two years taken in none of their respective quotas of about 6,200 and 1,300 people.
However, the executive, which is separately considering trying to suspend eastern heavyweight Poland for undermining the independence of its judiciary, stressed it wanted solutions that would unite the 28-nation bloc. Slovakia’s prime minister said he still rejected quotas but was willing to help in other ways.
And as the Union digests a Brexit vote last year that was partly driven by concern over migration, many states that backed the quota system in 2015 and are increasingly exasperated by Polish and Hungarian hostility to Brussels are also reluctant to force through new policies that may bolster eurosceptics across Europe who say the EU is trampling on national sovereignty.
“If we push it through above their heads, they will use it in their anti-EU propaganda at home,” one EU diplomat said, while noting that, with the migration crisis dropping out of the headlines, all sides might find a way to resolve the issue.
The Commission is working on reforms to the so-called Dublin rules under which people arriving in the EU must stay to claim asylum in the first country they reach. A mechanism to help the likes of Greece and Italy in emergencies has proved elusive.
However, governments may find it easier to negotiate now that the migration is not quite so prominent in local politics.
The Luxembourg-based ECJ dismissed “in their entirety” the arguments advanced by Hungary and Slovakia with backing from Poland and endorsed the Commission’s solution which eventually ordered states to take in nearly 100,000 Syrians and others.
“The mechanism actually contributes to enabling Greece and Italy to deal with the impact of the 2015 migration crisis and is proportionate,” the court said in statement.
Difficulties in identifying candidates for relocation – and a reluctance of refugees to settle other than in the wealthier west of Europe – saw fewer than 30,000 people relocated in two years, but the Commission noted an acceleration in the program this year and said it would continue to move people northward.
Among the gravest problems the migration crisis caused was member states reimposing controls on internal EU frontiers. That had jeopardized one of the Union’s most cherished achievements and for a time appeared to threaten to disrupt internal traffic.
EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said special exemptions that have allowed the likes of Germany, Austria, Denmark and Sweden to control their borders with EU neighbors should now end when they expire in two months’ time.
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97 Comments
6 years ago
You can put a fork in that relationship: it’s done.
6 years ago
I don’t think Hungary and Slovakia are gonna care much about the EU ruling.
6 years ago
Reply to
peakpower
it’s the will of mohammad. better they comply, because if european countries don’t submit to the EU ruling, NATO with USA support could bomb them, like they bombed serbia
6 years ago
Reply to
peakpower
That kangaroo EU court of “justice”(???) will perhaps impose economic sanctions or heavy fines on those countries. In that case they should refuse to pay one single penny if a fine is ruled by those Merkel’s puppets, leave the EU and re-define wellbeing by not confusing it with luxury and consumism. Freedom is more precious than Louis Vuitton bags, Armani suits, Yves St. Laurent creations, Givenchy perfumes and posh cars.
6 years ago
Conquest by the Thurd World (Islamic Hell World) looks a whole lot like conquest by the USSR or Nazi-Germany — population replacement.
6 years ago
Reply to
pdxnag
What the EU is doing fits the UN definition of genocide, of course, nobody will say it.
6 years ago
Reply to
pdxnag
While the native populations are dying out as a combination of low birthrates and the active promotion by the leftist elites of abortion, artificial birth control, homosexual behavior, drug use (especially marijuana) and other things that not only do not contribute to life but in fact serve to shorten it – i.e. the culture of death. All funded – as is this “open borders” madness and immigration jihad or hijrah – by George Soros.
The EU’s heavy-handedness, and I’ll say this again, is at one with the Obama cabal’s blackmail tactics against North Carolina after that state passed a bathroom bill (HB-2) designed to protect women and children from sexual predators – with the threat that if they didn’t sacrifice their women and children on the altar of LGBT supremacism as other states had, they would lose all federal funding.
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
I liken the Muslim/Marxist Obama and his minions and ilk like the Raptor in Jurassic Park films……the raptor was always testing the limits of it’s confinement….looking for weaknesses so it could escape and kill the humans……or dinner, whichever you prefer.
Obama was unfettered by our politicians who are sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect the citizens of our country. Instead the Un -Americans (Dimms, RINOs, etc) line their pockets with wealth to sell us out.
Soros – who is a self-hating Jew who sold out his people to the Nazis for gold- is behind 80% of the funding for the Anarchists and enemies of America…..the rest is funded by short-sighted Dhimmis of Islam….why can’t we get Trump to end his “dual citizenship” with America and Hungary? Four countries have now banned him from their borders. He is under investigation in Hungary for his NGOs.
…I say “short-sighted” because apparently they never got the memo that when Muslims take over a country or people….the first thing they do is kill the Dhimmis….because they rightly figure that if they would be traitors to their own country and people….then they will do it to them down the road.
Obama packed our government and military with so many Muslims and Dhimmis….it will be a miracle if Trump can clean them all out. Pray for our President.
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
What still amazes me is that Odamits bill would allow loss of federal funding, but breaking the law and allowing illegals sanctuary doesn’t loss.
6 years ago
So what can the EU do if the Eastern European countries tell them where to go (and hopefully what to do with themselves when they get there)? Could the Court fine the countries involved? Good luck collecting. Toss them out of the EU? Looks like they are on their way out the door if this continues. One thing the EU certainly won’t do is order the Germany Army to invade and occupy those countries defying the Court’s orders. About the only power the EU might have is to restrict other EU countries trade with the countries defying the order. I don’t know enough about the trade issues for those countries to be able to say how effective that might be (it could possibly hurt the other EU countries more than the targets). And here our circular logic is back to the beginning: What can the EU do?
6 years ago
Reply to
ed_in_tx
Have you not heard? The EU is forming it’s own military. What do you think they will do with their new military??
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Not me. I will go down trying to kill as many of them as I can.
Surrendering to muslims is not an option for me.
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Considering the influence in the EU, it will consist of the Bundeswehr plus a few.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Few people realize that most of europe has already collapsed.
Something inside the european people died; they are unable to protect themselves from savage dogs tearing them to pieces.
I’ve seen enough; I’m returning to my science studies. Science is a much better story than the story of the collapse of western civilization.
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Fiction would be much better…..at least one can get lost in fiction.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
Yes—no doubt. I am returning to my science studies. I’ve seen enough of the collapse.
It’s an ugly sight, and the more you watch it, the more depressed you get. Once you realize that nothing is going to stop it, it’s time to stop watching.
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Oh NO!!! dear Dancer … fight it… with every spark of life in you
!!
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
I’ve stopped watching and listening. Even have reached the point where I just (mostly) read the headlines or just the comments. I’ve not got the brain power to ‘study’ anything, so I read fiction. lol
6 years ago
Reply to
ed_in_tx
Still want to know who “allowed” the EU to make all the rules. In the first part of this article it does mention EU funding…..what funding, doesn’t the money come from the “member states” to begin with? I’m just confused.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
IIRC the various nations signed a treaty establishing the EU. It was a long trail from an Iron and Coal trade agreement (’49 I think) to the EU, with the EU being the objective all along – but the “establishment” hiding that from the people. After the fact at least one or two of those who had been in on the deal from the beginning admitted that was the aim all along. Once the EU was established the bureaucrats started making decisions and writing regulations – you know how that works here, well think of it far, far worse. The bureaucrats gave themselves the power once they were ensconced in their jobs.
6 years ago
Reply to
ed_in_tx
Thank you for the history lesson….When all this started, I was in high school, and history and current events were not at the top of my list of things to pay attention to. I wish I had paid more attention to the various things that were going on then instead of being so ignorant.
Again, thanks for the knowledge you shared. I really appreciate it.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
You’re welcome. That Bowdlerized version is extremely truncated as there were a number of agreements and treaties along the way, but it is interesting to see the lies told to the Europeans in order to advance the objective of establishing what the early backers thought of as a sort of United States of Europe with a central governmental entity. I’d say they overshot the target and went to a “federal” system without the sort of “state” governmental power we see in the US. It is even more “top down” authoritarian than the US.
6 years ago
Reply to
ed_in_tx
nothing they can do… March in the German army and deal with it. These countries need to do what they are told, or its the boot on their throat. This an evil from WWI and WWII
6 years ago
They better leave the EU.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kris
No, they can’t. They signed the papers, there’s no return now. It’s the will of mohammad. Hungary and east europe better they comply, because if they don’t submit to the EU ruling, NATO with USA’s support could bomb them, like they bombed serbia
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Ah ah ah
Very funny
BTW, these are Euro states, they print the currency, ah ah
6 years ago
Reply to
Kris
Like France effectively went out while being in?
You know that France was never in, right? No important EU rule applies to France.
6 years ago
The e.u is merely a new and rater disgusting twist in the nauseatingly stupid birth of a new government system consisting of unelected elietists, socialists, muslims, and others inbred defective genes. The longer nations grovel to the insane nazi monarchy that comprise the e.u, the worse it will get, as to meet its goals, the e.u will have to aggressively expand militarily to dominate its vassal states and neighbours.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Brilliant comment again! Read my comments and replies above.
G’d bless you!
6 years ago
There is NO independent wealthy nation will exist in a long run without borders .
Freeloaders will come to join the party .
6 years ago
How much welfare benefits Hungary have to pay per person?
Average unassimilated immigrant cost 20.000 EU per year to the host nation
When the average income for the Hungarians is around 10.000 EU ,that will be impossible to force that trough,because the pitchforks will come out and not to talk about 95% of Hungarians against the immigrant quotas .
Hungary had 150 years of muslim turkish occupation ,That was enough practical experience.
3 million Hungarians mostly women and children were taken as slaves .
Good luck looser EU
6 years ago
If the statements from the Visigrad four are to be believed, and I have no reason to think otherwise, Merkel and her pet courts can go and take cookery lessons – in boiling their heads.
What the leaders of the grand project miss is the effect of Britain’s example in saying to the EU get stuffed, they’re dancing on very thin glass and they just cannot see it.
The more the Bosch’s push, the more resistance grows. We’ve been here before in Europe.
6 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
I am an American, 2nd Generation of Polish decent, born on the North American Continent, United States of America, Weed, California. 1948
I side 100% with my Ancestors in Poland in their efforts to reject any invasion of Poland by the droves of muslim invaders being foist upon them by the illegitimate –
* Bastards * at the head of the so-called european union, in Brussels, Belgium.
A ” Union ” by definition, is comprised of a group of adult persons, in total agreement with the entity that is attempting to “govern ” them
Evidenced by the adoption of a political Constitution similar to that extant upon the United States of America, with all attendant moles, warts and amendments, far from the mark of ” perfect ” though the best possible ever conceived. anywhere in the history of Gods’ Creation on earth.
Any Questions ??
6 years ago
Reply to
andrew
Andrew, I am a Second Generation Italian-American, my grandparents came here fro Sicily AND they had to do it on their OWN! NO HELP FROM ANYONE IN AMERICA! Screw all of these bastard muslims & send them all home!
6 years ago
Reply to
Sage Nighthawk
I have no idea what my background is, and don’t even care. I’m an American. I love this country and welcome anyone who loves America, no matter where they come from. If one loves the country, adapts to the country’s ways,speaks the language, what else is needed? Who cared where their ancestors come from other than that person and their family. Nobody should care about “where” the ancestors originated from.
Not sure I’m making myself clear here, but personally, I don’t care where a person is from if they love the U.S.A.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
You are right about one thing, you did not make yourself “clear” and you are a moron. MY point was that they came to America LEGALLY you idiot! That is how you become an American, the legal way! NOT by sneaking you & your whole family across our borders! WHAT A MORON!
6 years ago
Reply to
Sage Nighthawk
It is OK for me to call myself a moron, but I find it unnecessary for you to call me names. You don’t even know me. You are one of those posters who likes to HIDE behind the protection of the internet.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
If you DON’T know where you came from then HOW are you to know where you are going? HISTORY
6 years ago
Reply to
Sage Nighthawk
I’m not going anywhere….I live in the best country in the whole world, and it doesn’t make any difference where I came from generations ago. I AM AMERICAN. Don’t know why it important to know where your ancestors came from or why you like to call people names. Maybe someone should have told your people to GO BACK HOME.
6 years ago
Reply to
andrew
I have faith the present Polish government will resist Andrew, they now have a claim in against Germany for war reparations for nearly 1 Trillon euros.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Slobodan Milošević was the first to push back muslims and they killed him for it
6 years ago
Ahh yes. What a dilemma: Take in the jihadists, and in so doing, collapse your own culture, or repel the jihadists and keep your culture. Wow. What to do? What to do?
Additionally, what are muslims doing at a Hungarian train station? I thought Hungary was standing strong and rejecting the muslim dirt bags.
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
That picture is about 2 years old.
You don’t see none of that anymore.
I personally visited Hungary this summer.
Lovely country, awesome food and wine.
Safe for single woman to walk at night!!!!!!!
I agree a 100% with the first part of your comment….
6 years ago
Reply to
Deplorable/dx
So are you saying then that importing massive numbers of jihadists into your country is a good thing?
The evidence does not seem to support that, but then I guess it depends on your interpretation of “good thing.”
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Tiffy, i think it’s safe to say that he is vowing just the opposite of the jihadists….
6 years ago
Reply to
DancerTiffy
Don’t know where I stole this from, but I have a collection of quotes that I keep. This one hits the nail on the head: “Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some, the world would better off without”.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
Yes, well said. Cultures come and they go. Western Civilization is currently in the going phase.
We really did not last that long.
6 years ago
“Europe WILL be diverse!”, said Frans Timmermans.
And which Europe is that, Mr. T?
“The Europe WE built”.
Vanity is an obstacle here.
6 years ago
This EU ruling will hasten the breakup of the EU.
6 years ago
Patriot Court says OK, but must be housed in all Parliament member homes and hallways of Parliament but not limited to janitor closets and storage areas..
6 years ago
Unelected EU technocrats complaining about democracy? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Eastern Europe better be ready for military action against the corrupt, craven, leftist-atheist Europeon Urinal.
6 years ago
The Eurabian Umma, aka, EU, appears to be over confident in its powers, hence, its blatant threats to the eastern bloc nations to commit suicide via EU mandated refugee floods, or, face economic punishment. I think that the eastern bloc nations will choose life, damn the EU`s hollow threats. Let Merkel and her corrupt cohorts hasten their national demise by taking in the islamic savages that the eastern nations don`t want. If the citizens of Germany, Italy, France, et al, don`t have the gumption to protect themselves from the EU`s actions, they`ll deserve what will happen: Eurabia.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
She’s been dodging tomatoes lately.
Germans are wanting to give her the Mussolini treatment.
I wish them luck.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Welfare @ 400 euros each nets them enough to buy SUVs and jIHAD all day long
6 years ago
The thing is ,many of these eastern European countries get a disproportionate amount of E.u grants compared to what they pay in ,and favourable trade …basically they will have to very quickly decide between these and the ruining of their countries with the E.u globalist agenda and ‘refugees’ as their weapon of choice.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rev Ben Dover
The time for “deciding” has passed…..they are infected to such a level now that there would have to be a massive civil uprising and war to stop what has already happened. I’ve not seen that kind of bravery there since the last war……Plus their education system has cowed and whoosified all of their men….just like what is happening here.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rev Ben Dover
I do believe that the United States under President Trump would be more than willing to trade with them.
6 years ago
EU is very corrupt. EU has no right to tell European countries what to do.
6 years ago
The eu court can go to hell. Every Nation who still believe in freedom needs to withdraw from the eu.
6 years ago
This sort of thing is very old news, and its counter is well known. You’d have to be a very great fool to accept being shipped to either of these places as a refugee.
6 years ago
Thanks to Socialism and Fascism gone wild, Europe is toast. Please pass the jelly, Frau Merkel.
6 years ago
This story right here is why the people of the UK were so intuitive and brave to vote in Brexit…now they will not be ruled by the madness that is the Globalist EU…..
Voltaire — “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
The UK is already over-run with the mudslimes anyhow, so what difference does it make? The “courts” of the UK are now siding with the mudslimes 9cause they feel sorry for them I guess) .
6 years ago
Hungary and Slovakia should tell the EU to pound sand….Put up the walls, protect them… Pull out of the EU.. It can be done..
6 years ago
The EU does NOT have a say about your Country’s Sovereign Borders! END THE EUROPEAN UNION NOW. TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY’S SOVEREIGN LANDS. AND DO IT NOW !
D
6 years ago
Looks to me like this will be the 3rd time the germans have started a WW!!! ROR!!!
6 years ago
eeee you …go to hell.
6 years ago
Reply to
disqus_1VhMJcA5Yv
what happens when euro dollar drops out big deal but what about the mozzies what happens to them. they wont go back to hell hole they came from.
6 years ago
Reply to
nonni
Wherever there are muslims, they will make it a hell hole, western europe has doomed itself. All it can do is work towards survival, but as they did nothing pertaining to prevention, there is little hope.
6 years ago
So the European Onion “EuroMasters” are upset are they? They are upset because member states have once again erected national borders to keep out the INVASION??? Well, maybe if the Euro-cucks had done their jobs by protecting the Eurozone’s OUTER BORDERS — as the Schengen agreement PROMISED to do — you would not have member states erecting walls, fences, etc. to try to protect themselves.
Look at yourselves in the mirror, oh “leaders” of the EU! THERE you will find the ones who have broken their promises and threaten the entire structure!
6 years ago
That “union” is in tailspin now.
With UK out, it will be even more instable.
6 years ago
Although it has been reported many projects to improve the infrastructure in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia would be impossible without “subsidies from Brussels” the above mentioned countries should leave the EU. It is much better to live modestly but free without repugnant EU politicians’ interfering in their national interests.
What started as an economical cooperation (the European Common Market) has become a frightening monster, but I trust that this giant with feet of mud will collapse sooner or later. The good thing would be that we the people pick up the pieces and start all over again in freedom, the bad thing would be that Europe becomes a caliphate but being in my 80s, THANK G’D I will be watching the radishes grow from beneath. I won’t therefore witness such a horror.
6 years ago
I just skimmed through the article, I made my mind up how to deal with Brussels at least 10 years ago.
Any questions?
A governments’ first job is to protect its’ citizens from harm.
When it fails job no. 1 you change the government.
Clean house.
6 years ago
take them, then ship to Germany
6 years ago
The E.U. was set up with unelected officials leading. Whether will is being ignored they refer the case to the E.U. unelected court which of course backs them 110% These people are globalists working with the like of George Soros, aiming to eliminate all boarders, all love of your country, and literally take over all rule. They are backed by multi billionaires who want more wealth and multi national corporations wanting cheep labour. In short beautiful Europe is deliberately being destroyed for profit and power !
GOD SAVE EUROPE.
