Lipavský welcomes EU migration pact, says criticism “from another planet”

The Czech foreign minister says that his government welcomes a new deal to reform the European Union’s migration policy agreed on Wednesday. Jan Lipavský said the EU’s migration and asylum pact was necessary, iDnes.cz reported. The new rules will help maintain the Schengen zone, which has come under great pressure, he said.

Opposition leader Andrej Babiš of ANO said on Wednesday that Europe was incorrigible and was again inviting millions of illegal migrants, blaming the Czech government for allowing this.

For his part Mr. Lipavský said criticism of the pact was “from another planet”. They probably take it that the worse things are, the better for them, he said.