Slovak PM Fico: Visegrad group ‘not black sheep’ of EU

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday said Central and Eastern European members of the EU were “not [the] black sheep” of the bloc “just because we have a different opinion” on migration. Fico was speaking at a press conference following a meeting of the Visegrad group — Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland — in Budapest. The meeting was also attended by Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki, new Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. They have all, to varying degrees, said no to the EU’s plans to distribute refugees across the bloc.

“I reject any criticism of us just because we have a different opinion about the [EU’s migration] quotas. We are not [the] black sheep,” Fico said through an interpreter, Reuters reported.

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Source: POLITICO