Czechs refuse further Eu-quota migrants

The Czech Republic is to stop taking in migrants under the EU scheme to share asylum seekers who arrived in Greece and Italy, citing security concerns.

Under a plan agreed in 2015, the European Commission wants EU member states to each admit a quota from a total of 160,000 asylum seekers, the majority from the Middle East and Africa, who are stuck in the two Mediterranean countries.

By last month, the Czech Republic had only taken in a dozen out of the 2,691 set by its quota, according to news agency CTK. It will take no more before the plan expires in September, Milan Chovanec, the Czech interior minister, said yesterday.