Slovak Interior Minister Ivan Simko abstained from voting on the draft reform of the EU-wide asylum system at the meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Thursday. EU ministers eventually approved the respective proposals. Simko said he abstained as the caretaker government has a limited mandate. His spokesperson noted that the minister abstained from the voting despite the fact that the proposals did not cross Slovakia's red line, which is mandatory quotas for migrants' redistribution. She added that there is currently a general agreement in the EU on what Slovakia has been claiming since the very beginning - that the mandatory admission of migrants is not a solution to migration flows into the EU.
Source: TASR
Martin Bednárik, Martina Šimkovičová, Photo: TASR
