EU officials announced they have begun court action against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic over their opposition to the bloc’s mandatory relocation scheme.
The EU has now turned over the three countries to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Although the ECJ possesses powers to interpret provisions of international refugee law, the current crisis — which has caused chaos and led to jihad attacks, and which threatens the fabric of European culture and society — is unprecedented. The EU’s relentless attack on the Visegrad group is a troubling, fascist-like interference in the sovereignty of those nations. The publication Deutshe Welle indicated that Brussels is determined “to see this scheme carried out,” despite the strong resistance of those countries. Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Konrad Szymanski said that his nation “is ready to defend its position in the Court,” and declared: “No one will lift the duty of providing public safety from the Polish government.”
It is the duty of every sovereign free nation to protect the citizens of its country. Anything less is an evasion of responsibility at best, treason at worst.
“EU chiefs refer Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to ECJ over migrant quotas”, by Nick Gutteridge, Express, December 7, 2017:
EU officials announced they have begun court action against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic over their opposition to the bloc’s mandatory relocation scheme.
The decision is likely to provoke a furious response from the leaders of the three states, which have all argued that the programme presents a security threat to their citizens.
It risks once more plunging Brussels into a bitter and acrimonious battle with three of its newest member states, at a time when the bloc is trying to uphold its remarkable unity of Brexit.
In September Hungary and Slovakia lost an appeal to the ECJ against the legality of the scheme after arguing that it should have been taken by a unanimous decision of the member state.
After that case eurocrats wrote to all four states not honouring quotas, with Slovakia subsequently dropping their opposition, ordering them to immediately start taking in migrants.
In a statement the Commission said: “The replies received were again found not satisfactory and three countries have given no indication that they will contribute to the implementation of the relocation decision.
“This is why, the Commission has decided to move to the next stage of the infringement procedure and refer the three Member States to the Court of Justice of the EU.”
EU Commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans blasted: “There can be no free riders in serious crises. We must be able to depend on every single member state.”
He added that “there is no sea wide enough, no fence wide enough to stop people coming” and Europe must learn to adapt to modern migration patterns.
Hungary and Poland, which have right-wing populist governments, have previously vowed not to comply with any order from the EU to start taking in migrants saying it transgresses their sovereignty.
Both face heavy fines for failing to comply with any eventual ruling by the Luxembourg-based ECJ but have said they will face the consequences to carry out their voters wishes.
Hungary was today separately referred to the ECJ over a separate crackdown on foreign funded NGOs and educational establishment which is a crude attack on billionaire financier George Soros.
The EU set up the migrant quota scheme at the height of the 2015 with the intention of distributing 160,000 refugees around the bloc to ease the burden on Greece and Italy….
mummymovie says
They “must be able to depend on every single member state” to commit suicide like they are.
Shameful.
Misery loves company, eh?
BC says
Hitler to Europe ‘send us your Jews we will deal with them’. Brussels/Merkel to Europe ‘I am sending you my Muslims – deal with them!
James Davis says
This EU, Globalist & Communist Insanity, is Like Telling The Sovereign, State Of ISRAEL, To Accept ALL PALESTINIAN, & SOMALIAN, & SYRIAN MUSLIM’S, Into Their Country & Put Them ALL on SOCIAL WELFARE, FOODSTAMP’S, UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION, & SECTION EIGHT HOUSING, & If You
Refuse, We Will Declare War On ISRAEL!!! What A CROCK OF “BS”!!!
infidel numero uno says
Demonstrates how wrong-headed the EU really is. Go Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic!!!
Ray Sears says
F*** The E.U. and their muslim loving Bull s**t !
LB says
ECJ seems to be just another kangaroo court, like Hague, where the verdicts are known before the trial even starts. The corrupt globalist eurocrats will not stand for anyone getting in their way. The real question is how will the Visegrad countries react after they are sentenced guilty? But then again, this is Central / Eastern Europe we’re talking about, so it’s safe to say that they will not bow down to their pusified Western counterpart which has already surrendered to islam.
Jan Sobieski says
The EU must be insane. Why is any Western country allowing Muslims into their country? Muslims are liars and thieves infiltrating the West and using its ‘human rights’; laws to destroy them from within. Muslims are welfare parasites.
CRUSADER says
True enough !
As long as Leftism allows for more liberal government programs to operate widely in the West, the spread of Muslims will grow into more influence.
But if Capitalism reigns more supreme then there could be less compatibility with Muslims in the West.
Trump at least is trying to resurrect a sense of what Reagan cared about:
stronger America as a beacon of hope, through capitalism and conservative values….
with emphasis on Judeo-Christian basis….
Anne Smith says
The EU is insane.
Why do you think we a re so desperate to leave.
Peggy says
And yet some countries are willing to do anything to join.
This is by no means an accident. Europe is governed by parasites and taking their people to Hell.
These three brave countries are awake only because their governments have put country and people first. How these politicians got elected is baffling. How did Soros allow it?
Was he asleep or totally focused on other things?
Unless NGOs who receive foreign donations are kicked out, they are going to see a civil war as a result of this sane policy.
Let’s hope the rest of EU member countries see them as a shiny example.
Westman says
This is a mistake of historical proportions by the EU leadership.
They have created a situation that mirrors the history of European migration onto American Indian lands while also creating pressure for succession by these states from the EU in a mirror of events leading to America’s Civil War.
However the EU is becoming selfish(few children), lazy, social-communist, and feminine.
“Laws” are enforced by the power(violence) of the state. When these countries who refuse to destroy themselves for Merkel and Juncker and clearly state they are ready to defend themselves to the death, the EU will look as silly as a dog suddenly facing the stopped car it was chasing.
Look at the major players of the EU. Their enforcement apparatus stands by while immigrant radicals create mahem and then run down the opposers who are unlikely to be violent. Their military defense is largely provided by the US. Does anyone think they could militarily overcome the immigration-resisting countries by force? They would lose. Would the US politicians come to the EU’s rescue or see the EU leadership as just another order of fascism?
Sadly, the Kumbaya ship of the EU, in the minds of its leaders, is sailing upon the voyage of discovery, when in fact it is circling the event horizon of a political and economic black hole , like water in a toilet, after Merkel and Juncker pulled the handle.
marble says
Your next to the last paragraph reveals the major force President Trump faces, NWO creators of present day chaos out of which they plan to turn the world into a total dictatorship ruled by a very few tyrants. He needs the full support of the honorable citizens of every nation as we confront our foes, the treasonous deplorables (just my humble opinion, could be wrong.) Those who would say or have said, “Either your for us or against us,” tell us exactly what it is you are for and how you want to achieve it.
gravenimage says
The term “deplorables” was used by Hillary Clinton to characterize those thinking of voting for Donald Trump.
Benedict says
The counter action to the EU-shit: Pexit, Hexit and Czexit
mike9a says
😉 had the same thought – AllExit
Peggy says
And fast exit too.
Michael Copeland says
“Europe WILL be diverse!” thundered Frans Timmermans, “the Europe WE built!”.
brane pilot says
Governments create intolerable situations out of thin air with misguided policies.
Then the same governments say these idiotic policies are immutable facts of nature that cannot be resisted.
And people believe them.
Vyx says
These intolerable situations will eventually lead to citizens screaming bloody murder for totalitarianism.
The government will comply. Case in point: the TSA in the US, which is a joke.
When the “taxpayers” start screaming their rights are being trampled, the government will rile up the muslims, who will attack.
And the taxpayers will call for more totalitarianism.
gravenimage says
Vyx, your idea that Jihad is created by the Western governments is mistaken.
jimmyb says
He stated no such thing. Are muslims worldwide now getting riled up because Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel? If that is true, then it was the government who riled up the jihadists to do what they do. Jihadists need a push sometimes, and infidel governments provide that push on occasion. Doesn’t mean that governments create jihad, just that they help sometimes in their cause.
Savvy Kafir says
That’s definitely true sometimes. But sometimes the people demand idiotic policies. There seems to be a lot of that going on in Europe in recent years.
Bodega says
I understand this group of three. Fight on, Fight On, FIGHT ON!
I think the EU is criminal in intent as it supports the winning of the Califphate in Europe and Soros is the main support. Get rid of the snake head. It is really important.
To what country does Soros belong…where is he a citizen? No one seems to know for sure. I would like to know beyond a peradventure of a certainty where he claims citizenship.
gravenimage says
Soros has citizenship in Hungary and in the United States.
America does not recognize dual citizenship, though.
Jennythe H says
As far as I know the USA does.recognize dual citizenship. My sister now has dual Australian and USA citizenship.
Carolyne says
I think Obama still has Kenyan citizenship through his father and US citizenship through his mother.
Carolyne says
OOps. I forgot that Kenya was a colony of England at the time Obama Sr. was born so Barack Hussein likely has UK citizenship or is that he is a subject of the Queen?
eduardo odraude says
Originally he is from Hungary. He is Jewish. Some Jewish people, when they learn of efforts to keep Islam out, or to contain it and quarantine it as communism was contained, assume that what is going on is analogous to what has often happened to Jewish diaspora around the world: the majority culture oppresses, brutalizes, or kills the Jewish minority. Jewish people remember the Holocaust and some of them assume that a similar dynamic is at work here. An innocent minority, Muslims, are being scapegoated as prelude to pogroms and possible holocausts that could eventually also target Jews again. I suspect that something like this has been part of what has motivated Bill Kristol’s, Jonah Goldberg’s, and Soros’ opposition to Trump. These Jews, brilliant and good people, simply do not know enough about Islam to notice that it is an inherently totalitarian culture whose core texts are filled with as much anti-Semitism as is Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Obviously there are other Jewish intellectuals who do understand what is going on with Islam and what Islam means for Jews: Daniel Greenfield and David Horowitz immediately come to mind. And I should add that of course I don’t know that Soros, Kristol, and Goldberg’s anti-Trump views can be explained as I have explained them. I’m just putting out a theory. After all, normally one would think that conservatives would be pretty happy with Trump’s policies and achievements. Soros is not a conservative, but Kristol and Goldberg certainly are, so what explains their deep rejection of Trump? I think it comes down to the explanation I’ve given above. They misunderstand Islam, and consequently they misinterpret Trump’s actions with respect to Islam.
Simon says
Eduardo, I suspect that the new-world-without-borders mentality is being directed by Soros as the front-man for the globalists who are the financiers of the world’s economic system. They seek a decrease in world population and the only way to do this is with greater controls over people. The old perpetual-growth capitalist paradigm is outdated and untenable – a new system of rationing, carbon credits, and decreased personal freedom is what globalists must initiate. Before that can happen Islam must be confronted and controlled.
People will give up freedom for personal security. The globalists still want to be at the top of the power pyramid, with the rest of us being on rations. I’m sure the Muslims hope to be in a position to take over the world one day so the globalists and Muslims are using each other in the meantime to create the necessary chaotic conditions. They are seemingly friends now and certainly will be enemies later.
Carol says
eduardo…surely you’re not considering Soros as one of the “brilliant and good people”? Simon’s ideas seem more credible. There is no way certain Jews and everyday politicians can be THAT stupid and unaware.
Mohammed was a rather “abandoned” boy. A quote from Erich Fromm’s brings him to mind:
“”A man, aware of his isolation, must find new bonds with his neighbors, his mental health depends on it…If he can not choose either love or symbiosis, he can solve the problem by building a relationship with his or her own person (narcissism). Then he becomes a world and “loves” the world by loving himself. This is a common way for people to cope with the need to have a relationship, and is usually mixed with sadism. It is dangerous and, in the extreme, leads to certain forms of madness. The last and malicious way to solve problems (usually associated with extreme narcissism) is the passion to destroy everyone else. When there is no one but me, I do not have to worry about others and I do not need to establish relationships with them. If I destroy the world, I will save myself from destroying me. ”
– Erich Fromm , The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
James Pierce says
It’s refreshing to see there are still places in Europe that aren’t hellbent on accelerating their own destruction
Peggy says
Let’s pray that they can withstand the storm coming their way.
SAM says
We must help these Christian states instead of scumbag cultures like Afganistan Pakistan Turkey Iraq well I mean all those scumbag Muslim countries.
Why can’t people see that wherever there is Islam and yes Muslims there is nothing but human misery
gravenimage says
So true, Sam.
Anne Smith says
Caused in the main by a refusal or intellectual inability to accept and implement modern technology, improve obsolescent agricultural practices, endemic corruption, absence of any democracy, misogyny and refusal to accept equality for all, inadequate education based solely on religion and superstition etc. etc.
One wonders just what the EU and their chums are hoping to achieve by bringing in this lot of no-hopers.
Peggy says
Total control over what is left of the population.
Muslims police each other so no need for expensive police force except for their own protection. Globalists have found the perfect vehicle.
They tried Communism only to fail eventually because even though religion is forbidden the population is still well educated and will eventually find a way to escape.
Islam is backward, self policing and destructive. There is no way that society will ever advance. There is proof enough now. Primitive people can be kept as slaves.
G179 says
I think these countries should quit the EU and form their own EEU – Eastern European Union. Over time, this will become the strongest, wealthiest and most peaceful part of Europe.
PaulM says
G179…YES INDEED. What a great idea. And peg their currencies fairly and evenly after very careful Economic/Commercial analysis, as should have been done with the EU-Euros and never was. No parity or any adjustments of any kind were even thought of, let alone considered. And for shit’s sake, get rid of the scumbag, cancerous leper Rothschilds banking system as was done in Finland etc. They and Soros are the ones that are truly calling the shots on Immigration.
Rubiconcrest says
… there is no sea wide enough, no fence wide enough to stop people coming” and Europe must learn to adapt to modern migration patterns…. As if waves of imigrants are as harmless as migrating birds.
PaulM says
Yes, exactly and your analogy about migratory birds is absolutely perfect. So, in keeping with that wonderful analogy of yours….just as the migratory birds do, we must make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE MIGRATORY PEOPLE (Read scumbags and welfare bums and rapists) migrate right back to the septic tank desert shit holes that they migrated from. Just like the “real migratory birds” do. Oh and just as the migratory birds are legally hunted and removed from nature, thus should be done to the migrants that commit crimes while they are “visiting” during their migratory visit.
Jennythe H says
If the migrants didn’t automatically receive welfare payments, it will do a lot to discourage them. Do refugees or migrants receive any welfare payment when they settle in these countries (Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic)?
Leondegrance says
The ridiculous verdict that is no doubt coming will push that bloc out of the EU. Hopefully leading to complete collapse. Unelected old bullies in Brussels have no leg to stand on vs a countries sovereignty.
CRUSADER says
Just at a time when Trump is making speeches about sticking it in the face of international “agreements”, the UN and EU, TPP, etc…
Thank goodness for American “Exceptionalism” — one of the better ‘isms conjured in modern times.
We need to support Poland and Hungary and the Czechs more now, than we ever did when they were fighting the communist wave that washed over them…. Remember 1959 Hungary? Sebastian Gorka does….
There are parallels to ineptitude by the West in responding correctly when liberty requires it….
eduardo odraude says
If you have not already seen it, google Trump’s great speech in Warsaw, Poland. He not only praises the Polish people to the skies, but in the second half of the speech, he gives the most ringing defense of Western civilization I’ve heard in a long time. It’s a speech from which one can get the impression that Trump, more than 99% of Western politicians, cares about Western civilization and understands the threats Europe faces today. Lech Walesa, surely one of the greatest heroes in the history of democracy, was present in the front row, clapping heartily for Trump, and Trump picked him out for high praise. The Polish audience went wild for Trump.
Some people in Western Europe are starting to move to the Visegrad nations, because the streets remain relatively safe. Meanwhile Western Europe has been experiencing a crime and rape wave due largely to Muslim immigrants. This is certainly not to say that all Muslims do such things, obviously not. But Islamic immigration to Europe should be stopped cold, and all Muslim non-citizens should be sent home, and if they are impoverished Muslim refugees, Europe should help them in their own regions, where the Euro goes much farther and can buy twenty times more than it can buy in Europe. From here on in, only non-Muslim immigrants should be permitted to stay in Europe. Let’s hope that Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic do not give in, and that Slovakia joins them again. If Europe wants multiculturalism, that’s fine, but let them get immigrants from non-Muslim parts of the world. Hindus, Buddhists, and others know how to happily and peacefully integrate into the host society.
Steve K says
If Muslim diversity is such great stuff, why does it have to be forced on people?
eduardo odraude says
Ironically, EU leaders, in the name of multiculturalism, are planting the Islamic seeds of multiculturalism’s gradual diminution and eventual elimination.
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
gravenimage says
Good point, Steve.
David Stephenson says
EU: “…this will go down on your permanent record…”
Visegrad Countries: “…oh, yeah?…”
Paraphrase of an old ’80’s song, Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05k90ts2biw
R Russell says
Time for a po-exit, czexit and hunexit.
Join the UK and take back your sovereignty
eduardo odraude says
Yes. Or Pexit, Czexit, and Hexit. The upside of EU membership is minuscule by comparison to the downside of taking in a virtually unlimited number of Muslims and risking the loss of European liberal civilization to an Islamic population with an Islamic law ethos contrary to the deepest European values, namely humanism and Judeo-Christianity.
Never forget Charlie Hebdo and all the others faced with a stark choice: shut up about Islam, or be slaughtered. Most of the “free” press in Europe has given in to terror and shut up about Islam. The press in all free nations should band together and agree to a regularly scheduled, coordinated defiance of Islamic threats. If a thousand newspapers and websites all printed the Muhammad cartoons at once, or published Islam-critical articles at once, the risk would be shared. Charlie Hebdo and people like Molly Norris should not have had to carry the burden alone. Yet the martyrdom of Charlie Hebdo staff and employees has been almost entirely forgotten by the very peoples who should be celebrating and emulating the example of fearless free thought, fearless insistence on consciousness. This is not to say that Charlie Hebdo was wise in their general political stances. That can be debated. What is not debatable is that Charlie Hebdo people died for freedom of speech. They deserve eternal kudos for that. But they have been forgotten by most people, and were rarely celebrated and lionized as they should have been.
For decades, European politicians have been talking “tough” about stopping uncontrolled immigration from Islamic nations. Yet those politicians have never followed through on their promises, and the waves of Muslim immigration have only grown ever larger, so that women, gays, and non-Muslims are increasingly under threat by the spread of an aggressive Sharia law ethos.
Help the migrants where they come from, not in Europe. In fact, if they are helped outside Europe, far more can be done for them, because a Euro goes about fifty times farther in the Middle East and North Africa than in Europe, where sheltering and feeding migrants is generally far, far more expensive. And the EU bureaucrats and European leaders should stop being so heartless to women, gays, atheists, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and other non-Muslims. They have a right to walk their streets without fear and to live in free societies where admission is forbidden to any large totalitarian-inclined group with a violent vanguard.
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
Thomaspj Poovathinkal says
WELL SAID.
Mentor says
EU has degenerated into an Axis of Evil. These countries should leave the EU, and not like PM May is doing!
? says
Fuck the satanic EU!
eduardo odraude says
If I read this story right, Slovakia gave in to EU pressure. So sorry to hear that. I know someone from Slovakia, a wonderful country. I hope Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic all refuse to give in, and refuse any compromise on this issue whatsoever. The Visegrad countries may represent the only viable future of Europe, at a time when Western Europe is recklessly gambling with its liberal democratic future. Perhaps the worst case scenarios will not unfold, but no one knows, and the prospects for Europe look horrific in many ways. It is profoundly irresponsible of EU leaders to risk gambling away the European social accomplishments of millennia. And Merkel is one of those most criminally negligent of the leaders. She brought in over a million migrants in a single year, and now she and other EU leaders don’t want to be accountable for that, they want to fob off their mistake on places like Slovakia and Hungary. Well, screw the EU bureaucrats, I can’t wait till they fall.
Jennythe H says
None of these EU decision-makers choose to settle in any of the Muslim enclaves which develop following the mass intake of the muslim invaders.
Thomaspj Poovathinkal says
EUROPEAN UNION is a CONSTRUCT of those who WORSHIP the god of PHILOSOPHERS.
Let us FIND OUT whether THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST has anything to DO with it.
DRHazard says
I hope these countries follow the lead of the UK and ditch the EU bureaucracy that has swallowed identity politics whole. What bothers me the most is that I see the US heading in the same direction; legal bullying directed at the white, native citizens that do all the work, pay all the taxes and receive nothing but disdain, fines, jail time and public shaming for their contributions.
gravenimage says
EU begins court action against Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic over migrant quotas
……………………………
The EU wants everyone to suffer an epidemic of rape and Jihad at the hands of the invading Muslim hordes.
More:
EU Commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans blasted: “There can be no free riders in serious crises. We must be able to depend on every single member state.”
He added that “there is no sea wide enough, no fence wide enough to stop people coming” and Europe must learn to adapt to modern migration patterns.
……………………………
How the hell would they know–has the EU ever tried to stop the Muslim invaders? Of course not.
There would be no such “modern migration patterns” if European nations not invited Muslims in in the first place.
And would he have said the same thing about the Nazis? Resistance is futile…
PaulM says
Well said and too true. I am looking forward to the “trial/hearings”. I am wondering if the “judges” will be wearing the appropriate attire? That being brown shirts and jack boots….with a nice colorful lightning bold on the sleeve?
Wellington says
Time way past due for the EU to be thrown on the trash heap of history.
The EU is a colossal mistake wrapped up in giant error inside a bullshit load of arrogance.
gravenimage says
Absolutely.
eduardo odraude says
You’ve put it in a nutshell within a nutshell within a nutshell.
Troybeam says
The EU has no business trying to change the sovereignty of any nation with illegal Muslim immigrants let alone put these nations who refuse them on trial.
Lydia says
This is a frontal assault on national sovereignty of course.
Moving towards that borderless “ONE” world government…
among other things.
FYI says
This is proof positive that the EU..
Is NOT a democracy and that the political leaders in the West are following a globalist agenda..
Angela Merkel won a nice medal:coudenhove-kalergi prizewinner in 2010.
Juncker is another medal winner.:these are the people that run the EU!
This insidious plan(it is REAL-you can be awarded a medal for it)calls for mass immigration into the EU…and replacement of the EU population over time..
It is no surprise that Merkel has allowed mass islamic immigration into Germany.
East European nations,if they have any sense,should LEAVE the EU now.They can easily form their own economic bloc.
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Matthieu Baudin says
“…The EU’s relentless attack on the Visegrad group is a troubling, fascist-like interference in the sovereignty of those nations…”
All too true. A drawn out court hearing may however provide a much needed public forum through which the dissenting Central European authorities can make their arguments heard and further build their case against the mass influx of people from regions hostile to the European Christian/Humanist Tradition.
Richard Dutton says
Slovakia bailed?! I’m stunned. They should have stood with Poland and Hungary. But they caved to Hitler too, so…
M says
Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic…. Countries that do NOT want their daughters raped. How refreshing! Sanity!
Kasey says
Another good reason for some nations to get out of the EU.
E. H. D says
Maybe these countries should be able to make their own decisions on immigration. The E.U. seems to have no consideration for the rights of these countries citizens. Maybe the E.U. is not such a good idea.