{"id":1086,"date":"2018-08-27T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:38:02","slug":"illegal-migration-must-be-stopped-babis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/illegal-migration-must-be-stopped-babis\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal migration must be stopped: Babis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Monday August 27th that a comprehensive action plan is necessary to stop illegal migration, which he will address on a visit to Italy and Malta this week.<\/div>\n
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“If Italy and Malta won’t welcome (the migrants), then Spain will. And so\u00a0we’re sending the message to migrants that it’s possible to come to Europe,\u00a0from Morocco via Spain,” Babis wrote in an opinion piece in the Czech\u00a0broadsheet daily DNES.<\/p>\n

“This has to stop. Otherwise we’ll never stop the migrant influx,” added\u00a0the businessman and head of the populist ANO movement. “I plan to discuss this with EU leaders and take part in implementing a\u00a0comprehensive action plan.”<\/p>\n

The Czech premier’s visit to Italy and Malta will coincide with that\u00a0of Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, who maintains the same hard line on\u00a0illegal migration.<\/p>\n

“I want to discuss the issue with my partners in Italy and Malta and of\u00a0course also with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who recently negotiated with\u00a0Spain,” Babis said.<\/p>\n

“We need to begin cooperating in a serious way to find a solution because we\u00a0needlessly lost three years to an inane debate on migrant quotas.”<\/p>\n

Migration is a hot political issue in the Czech Republic, an EU and NATO\u00a0member of 10.6 million people where just a handful of refugees have settled\u00a0since the migrant crisis of 2015.\u00a0Babis reiterated\u00a0Monday\u00a0that the Czech Republic would welcome “no illegal\u00a0migrants”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a key move, a symbol and a message to migrants and migrant smugglers\u00a0that it’s pointless to take a boat destined for Europe,” Babis said.<\/p>\n

Last month Babis said Italy’s request that EU peers take some of 450\u00a0migrants stranded at sea was “a road to hell”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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