PRAGUE (Sputnik) — Earlier this month, the European Commission announced a mandatory quota system to relocate some 160,000 refugees, who had arrived primarily in Italy, Greece and Hungary, among the bloc's member states. The scheme was approved later during two separate EU ministerial meetings.
"We cannot rule out that the refugees, who used to reside, for instance, in Germany and were forced under the EU quotas to move to another country, would like to appeal the decision," Svoboda, who is a Prague-based EU lawmaker, told the Czech news portal Novinky.
According to the lawmaker, refugees could perceive their forced transfer to another EU country as humiliating their human dignity and a rejection of their asylum application in the initial country of choice.
In addition, one should not assume that all refugees lack money — some of them are able to afford a lawyer, while others are likely to be supported by various humanitarian organizations and rights groups, he said.
A number of EU states have already spoken against the mandatory quotas, including the Unites Kingdom and Finland, among others.
The Czech Republic is also opposed to the obligatory quotas, but has promised to carry out all its European obligations in connection with the migration crisis, according to the country's foreign ministry.
