Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is convinced that the adoption and implementation of the current European Commission's proposal to improve the European management of migration, encourages tens of thousands of additional refugees to depart from Northern Africa to Europe. Disagreeing with the quotas on refugees, moreover, Fico thinks each state should have the right to offer an alternative programme, for example in the form of humanitarian aid or deploying doctors into the refugees' country of origin.
MEP and Opposition party SaS (Freedom and Solidarity) chairman Richard Sulík remarks that there's no innate right for every person on the planet to live in the EU. "Most of those people are uneducated," Sulik said, adding that most of them come here for social benefits.
Also the Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák describes the European Commission's migration proposal as 'insincere, hypocritical, and purpose-built'. The reasons for being hypocritical, Kaliňák says, are mainly that Romania and Bulgaria aren't accepted to the Schengen area. Moreover, he says the quota-based redistribution contradicts the whole system for movement in the EU, and that with these migration flows it can easily happen, that people who really need help won't get it.
For Slovakia, the quota is 1.96 percent, which represents a total of 786 refugees - 471 from Italy and 314 from Greece. The member states will get €6,000 for each relocated refugee, which in Slovakia's case would be €4.71 million.
