The Czech Republic will accept 81 Syrians from refugee camps in Turkey within the EU-Turkey deal on refugees, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Hana Mala told Tuesday’s issue of daily Lidove noviny (LN).
The mandatory quotas for the distribution of asylum seekers across the European Union approved last year have been strongly opposed by the four countries of the Visegrad Group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic), Prague Monitor reported.
Prague has a reputation of not showing enough solidarity in a crisis. By accepting the Syrians, the Czech Republic would like to get rid of the unfavourable image of a country that foreigners want to avoid as much as possible, LNwrites.
According to a report on migration that the government approved in June, the Syrian migrants should arrive in the country by the end of October, LN adds.
There is only a small Syrian community in the Czech Republic: 1116 Syrians had residence in the country and 505 of them had permanent residence at from the end of June, Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported.
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