Czech Republic will not file complaint about migrant quotas

The Czech Republic will not join Slovakia in filing a complaint about temporary migrant quotas so as not to fall into isolation in further negotiations with EU member states, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in an question and answer session in the lower house on Thursday. The prime minister said the government’s goal was not to bring the Czech Republic into isolation within the European Union, but to prepare the ground for pushing through its arguments against permanent migrant quotas. “It would be meaningless to act in a way that would frustrate our communication with other member countries where our arguments would no longer be listened to and would not be taken seriously," Sobotka said.