Rakušan: Czechia to contribute CZK 480m yearly to migration pact

The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says that Czechia will pay around CZK 480 million annually toward the EU’s Asylum and Migration Pact. He made the comment in a Czech Television debate show on Sunday.

The agreement, which has been passed by the European Parliament, says that member states will have to either accept a share of refugees from 2026 or opt out of this obligation and provide financial support to other member states.

Mr. Rakušan said suggestions that Czechia would have to pay CZK 15 billion amounted to scaremongering.

Radek Vondráček of main opposition party ANO said that the financial support in fact amounted to a quota.