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- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday refused to implement the European Union's new migration system in his country, a sign that tensions around the matter are set to remain high despite a reform sealed after years of talks.
"We are saying unequivocally that you cannot order a country that it must accept, in the Slovak case, up to 300 migrants you know nothing about, or pay 20,000 euros per each," Fico told a press conference after visiting the foreign ministry. The package is expected to win the necessary majority when EU countries vote on it, something an official said was now expected in early May though a final date had yet to be set.
Hungary was also against, a government spokesman said last week, adding Budapest considered the system"not workable".Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest are far short of votes to sink the deal on their own.
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