PM: Czech Republic will fight mechanism for permanent redistribution of migrants

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said that if the Czech Republic was forced to accept a permanent redistribution of migrants as proposed by the EC, the country may take the issue to court. In a debate on commercial TV Prima the prime minister said he hoped it would not come to that and that in cooperation with other EU members such a solution could be averted. The Czech Republic has consistently opposed mandatory migrant quotas of the grounds that the system has shown itself unworkable even on a small scale. A voluntary relocation project on the resettlement of 150 Iraqi Christians in the Czech Republic failed miserably in recent weeks after 49 of the 89 who came here either tried to move to Germany illegally or returned home. The project was cancelled.