Prague, Sept 13 (CTK) – The creation of a union within the EU, suggested by President Milos Zeman and Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer, is a bad idea, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) said in a press release yesterday.
“We want to create a union in the Union, we would like to cooperate,” Hofer said after meeting Zeman on Monday.
“Norbert Hofer has presented his project of ‘a union in the Union’ that roughly corresponds to the idea of extended Visegrad Four (V4) group into Visegrad Plus,” Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek added.
The Visegrad Four is comprised of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.
Zeman has repeatedly suggested a closer cooperation of the Visegrad Four with Austria or Slovenia.
Earlier yesterday, Sobotka rejected Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn’s proposal that Hungary should be expelled from the EU over its rough stand on migrants.
Sobotka said “we will not create any union within the EU or expel anyone.”
“Europe must cooperate and retain its cohesion,” he added.
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