Eu Plan: Europe and Share Refugees

eu plan: Along with Poland and Slovakia, they have also become the most vocal critics of the EU plan to share refugees according to a quota system, according to Metro News. The influx of migrants into Europe has also upended the political order in many countries in Western Europe, which received more than 1 million asylum-seekers last year, yet analysts say it not surprising that opposition to newcomers is at its highest in the mainly homogenous societies in Central and Eastern Europe."Migration is the issue because politically it works and it not surprising that it works where there are no migrants," says Csaba Toth, strategic director of the Republikon Institute think-tank . "It may even be easier without migrants because if people met migrants too often it not certain that they would be able to hate them in the same manner."Hungary is holding a government-sponsored referendum on Oct. 2, seeking political support for the rejection of any future, mandatory EU quotas to accept refugees and Prime Minister Viktor Orban government has expressed no qualms in its reasons for rejecting the mainly Islamic newcomers: It wants to preserve Hungary Christian identity and its relatively homogenous culture and population."Hungary does not need this kind of intercultural mass migration that is happening at our border," said government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs. "We don't want those kinds of migrants, for obvious reasons." Only 1.5 per cent of Hungary population of 9.8 million is foreign born and most of them are people who moved here from areas in Romania and Slovakia which were part of Hungary until World War I. So far, the most noticeable counter-campaign to the government has been run by the satiric Two-Tailed Dog Party, which claims on one of its posters that the average Hungarian sees more UFOs in his or her lifetime than migrants. Still, rallying cries against migration have dominated the debates ahead of upcoming ballots in the two Central European countries. While 400,000 migrants passed through Hungary last year on their way to Western Europe, so far this year the country has taken in only 331 people, proportionally very similar to the 545 asylum seekers recognized in 2015, according the Eurostat, the EU statistical office. Migration has also been a main theme ahead of regional and parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic on Oct. 7-8. Fences built last September on the borders with Serbia and Croatia and tougher laws against migrants entering the country irregularly have also practically stopped the migrant flow coming north through the Balkans. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.