国际英语资讯:Europe must be able to defend borders: central European states_时事

国际英语资讯:Europe must be able to defend borders: central European states

"The Visegrad countries will present their position next Thursday at the official meeting," Orban said.

Orban also said that ahead of next week's summit, President of the European Council Donald Tusk would come to Budapest on Friday and discuss the topics of next week's meeting.

Orban's Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki said that Sunday's meeting was unacceptable, adding, "We are not going to attend, they only want to re-heat a proposal."

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The four Visegrad leaders were joined at the meeting by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who has recently added his voice to calls for a tougher migration policy.

"We have to have a Europe capable of defending us," Kurz declared.

"We have to strengthen (border agency) Frontex, to protect our external border and ensure internal freedom," he said.

Kurz is sharing the traditional hardline stance on migration, rejecting any suggestion of mandatory refugee resettlement among EU members.

He said that Austria would like that the discussion about the migrants focus on the common defense of the external borders and the setting up of hot spots and not the relocation of the illegal migrants within Europe.

"Without safe external borders, we cannot keep our internal borders open," Kurz explained.

Czech Prime minister Andrej Babis underlined that the Visegrad countries were very closely alligned regarding the question of migration."Since a long time, our opinions are the same regarding migration, and it is my conviction that southern European countries such as Spain, Italy, Malta and Greece should be defending the continent," he said.