European Union Orders to Poland and Hungary to Take More Migrants or Leave

Whoever heard of a nation being given a quota of migrants they need to accept whether they like it or can afford it or not? Well, right now Hungary and Poland would fall into that category. Apparently the EU doesn’t think those countries are pulling their weight when it comes the number of migrants they allow to enter. Hence they are about to get an ultimatum.

Germany, France and up to 21 other countries will give an ultimatum to Hungary and Poland this year demanding that they accept their quota of migrants or get out of the EU.

Why have Hungary and Poland been so rebellious, as the EU would characterize them, over this issue? What’s the problem?

Hungary first:

Hungary has led a rebellion against the quotas with a challenge in the EU courts and by pushing for a “cultural counter-revolution” against the centralisation of powers in Brussels.

Now Poland:

Poland has ignored the European Commission’s criticism and tried last month to veto Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, from being reappointed president of the European Council.

The problem is the leaders, and no doubt the people, of those two countries are fed up with being told how to run their nations and their lives. They must think that they are Hungarians or Poles as opposed to Europeans. And there’s the heresy.

The problem is this entire open border project has caused a flood of migrants from very different cultures to arrive in EU member nations. It would appear that despite their alleged love of these immigrants, the larger members of the EU have a limit to how many they will accept before they force some off on to other member states.

Both countries have ignored proposals introduced by the EU in 2015 to relocate 160,000 migrants who had arrived in southern EU countries to other member states to ease the impact of the flood of migrants.

It sounds like the solution to Hungary’s and Poland’s problems was contained in the EU’s threat. Just leave the EU — after all, the nations of Hungary and Poland existed before the EU, and with the right leadership and policies, they will do just fine after the EU.

Source: The Times UK