AlHijjah 07, 1436, September 21, 2015, SPA -- Eastern members of the European Union are to stick to their rejection of fixed quotas for taking in the refugees flowing into the bloc, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in Prague on Monday, according to dpa. "I anticipate that our joint position rejecting the application of quotas will be reaffirmed," Sobotka told the CTK news agency ahead of a meeting of the Hungarian, Polish, Slovakian and Czech foreign ministers. The Czech leader said the European Commission had failed to think through the implications of the idea, pushed by Germany in particular, for 120,000 migrants already in the EU to be mandatorily allocated to the member states. Sobotka noted in particular the difficulty of ensuring that the migrants remained in the country they were allocated to. Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna rejected any automatic response to the crisis. "We are looking for a formula by means of which we can show solidarity, but that also reflects our capacities," he said.
