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Slovakia Files Lawsuit Against European Union Quotas to Redistribute Migrants

Slovakia Files Lawsuit Against European Union Quotas to Redistribute Migrants

Syrian migrant children play in front of a building acting as a temporary refugee camp in Gabcikovo, Slovakia, October 8, 2015. (Reuters)

Bratislava: Slovakia filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice today against a European Union decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers among member countries, Prime Minister Robert Fico said.

"We demand that the court rules the decision on imposing mandatory quotas is invalid," Fico told reporters.

"I consider the quotas to be nonsensical and technically impossible. Our words are being proven true, the quotas have become a fiasco."
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