Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) – Luxembourg will do its utmost to make interior ministers arrive at a compromise in the question of migration, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn said after a meeting of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries, Luxembourg and Latvia in Prague Monday.
Asselborn said the views of the mandatory quotas still differed.
Asselborn did not speak about whether the countries rejecting the quotas would be outvoted if need be at the Tuesday meeting of EU interior ministers.
He only said it was his task to find a joint solution.
Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek appreciated Luxembourg’s efforts.
“Luxembourg’s presidency is making its most to prevent the gaps between countries, taking its work very seriously,” he added.
Zaoralek said Monday’s meeting was only preparatory. It is its task to increase the chances for an agreement of interior ministers tomorrow, he added.
“We were only trying to understand the situation better,” Zaoralek said.
The V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) reject the European Commission’s plan to mandatorily redistribute the 120,000 asylum seekers from the EU countries facing the biggest influx of migrants.
Reservations about the quotas have also been expressed by the Baltic countries and some Western politicians.
In its analysis on the mandatory quotas, the Czech Interior Ministry has said that the redistribution system for refugees had already failed, during the migration crisis in Malta six years ago.
Instead, the analysis says the EU should provide temporary protection for the migrants and that mandatory quotas are probably unlawful.
The analysis was sent to Luxembourg, now presiding the EU, Monday.
The issue will be discussed by EU interior ministers on Tuesday and a special summit will meet over it on Wednesday.
