European Knight
09-01-2015, 06:15 AM
Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said today she is in favor of increasing the pressure on EU Member States that disagree with a fair redistribution of refugees among the EU-28. In an interview for ZDF,
German public television, she said she would cut off financial aid to such countries if she could.
"There is a need here for all 28 Member States to bear responsibility," the minister emphasized. In her view, there is now a need to consider whether to halt financing for those countries that are not demonstrating solidarity.
One option is for "entitlements to be reduced if there is no responsibility taken for solidarity," she said. "The high number of migrants is an existential challenge to the EU."
"Either Europe will be shipwrecked by this problem with the refugees, or the union will come through it even stronger, namely, thanks to the fair redistribution of refugees," Mikl-Leitner said. She also criticized the building of the fence that
Hungary has now undertaken on the border with Serbia in an effort to halt the wave of migrants.
Austrian Interior Minister: Countries that reject refugee redistribution should lose EU money - Romea.cz (http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/austrian-interior-minister-countries-that-reject-refugee-redistribution-should-lose-eu-money)
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German public television, she said she would cut off financial aid to such countries if she could.
"There is a need here for all 28 Member States to bear responsibility," the minister emphasized. In her view, there is now a need to consider whether to halt financing for those countries that are not demonstrating solidarity.
One option is for "entitlements to be reduced if there is no responsibility taken for solidarity," she said. "The high number of migrants is an existential challenge to the EU."
"Either Europe will be shipwrecked by this problem with the refugees, or the union will come through it even stronger, namely, thanks to the fair redistribution of refugees," Mikl-Leitner said. She also criticized the building of the fence that
Hungary has now undertaken on the border with Serbia in an effort to halt the wave of migrants.
Austrian Interior Minister: Countries that reject refugee redistribution should lose EU money - Romea.cz (http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/austrian-interior-minister-countries-that-reject-refugee-redistribution-should-lose-eu-money)
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