The EU Commission has responded indignantly to a letter from council President Donald Tusk in which he declared programme of redistribution of refugees for failure. The opinion of Polish politician is “unacceptable” and “anti-European”, said EU Interior commissioner Dimitris Edwards in Strasbourg. “This paper undermines one of main pillars of European project: principle of solidarity.”
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Tusk had sent a letter to Heads of State and Government with a view to forthcoming EU summit. In an analysis of current migration policy, he described definition of mandatory quotas as “highly splitting”. The approach received “disproportionate attention” and was also ineffective. It also called on all summit participants to adopt reform of EU asylum system in a “consensual manner”.
The interior ministers of EU Member States decided in September 2015 against resistance of Eastern European states to reallocate 120,000 asylum seekers. They should be brought to or Member States within two years of a quota system from heavily polluted countries of Italy and Greece. So far, however, only 32,000 people have been distributed.
Hungary and Poland have not yet received a refugee from redistribution program, Czech Republic only twelve. That is why EU Commission sued three Member States last week. If European Court of Justice were to give justice to Commission, it could impose penalty payments or one-off fines.
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At EU summit next Thursday and Friday, heads of State and Government will again discuss what a reform of European asylum system might look like. In a separate invitation letter, however, President Tusk announced that no decisions should be taken at first. Instead, both issues will be discussed openly to prepare decisions in coming year.
However, decisions on security, defence and social strengning of Europe should be adopted at summit. It will also be about economic sanctions against Russia. The punitive measures adopted in course of Ukraine crisis expire in January 2018, according to a high-level EU representative, an extension of sanctions is likely to be adopted.
