Czech foreign minister says government opposed to mandatory refugee quotas

The Czech Republic remains strongly opposed to mandatory refugee quotas on the grounds that such a system simply does not work, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said at the Globsec security conference in Bratislava on Saturday. He said the country was prepared to cooperate in solving the migrant crisis to the best of its ability on a voluntary basis but the government could not take on the responsibility of admitting thousands of migrants in a process over which it would have no control. The Czech foreign minister moreover pointed to integration problems in countries such as France, Germany and Britain which were far better prepared to cope with the task.He also criticized efforts to link the migrant issue to the distribution of EU funds.