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Eastern Europe says no to migrant quotas
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EASTERN Europe rejected migrant quotas yesterday despite German warnings over the “biggest challenge” in EU history, amid disturbing footage of refugees in Hungary being fed “like animals.”
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met counterparts from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia in Prague, but failed to convince them to accept an European Union plan to distribute 160,000 refugees around the continent.
“We’re convinced that as countries we should keep control over the number of those we are able to accept,” said Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek after the meeting.
Record numbers of people, many of them fleeing war and conflict, continued to pour into Europe, with around 7,600 entering Macedonia in the last 12 hours.
Faced with the surge, Germany says that the EU plan does not go far enough, but Chancellor Angela Merkel has few options for convincing countries that refuse to take part, having already rejected punitive measures such as cutting EU subsidies.
Hungary’s response has been to send more troops to help build a four-meter fence along its southern border, and images from inside its controversial Roszke holding camp showed families being fed “like animals in a pen,” with hungry women and children caught in a scrum as police threw sandwiches at them.
“It was inhumane and it really speaks for these people that they didn’t fight over the food despite being clearly very hungry,” said Austrian volunteer Michaela Spritzendorfer, who filmed the scenes.
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