Czech PM says principle of immigrant allocation system main issue

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has given a cool reception to comments from the Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Jiří Dienstbier saying that the Czech Republic could take up to 15,000 immigrants. The comments sparked mixed reactions across the Czech political spectrum. Mr. Sobotka said the crucial issue it was not a matter whether the Czech Republic could accept a few thousand refugees but whether a European system for allocating them would be created which governments could not challenge afterwards. The Czech Republic showed during the war in former Yugoslavia that it could take in thousands of refugees, he added.