V4 OBJECTION TO THE MANDATORY RELOCATION QUOTAS

Abstract

The European Union, in attempt to deal with the mass migration influx, decided on a mandatory quota for relocation of asylum seekers, for all Member States. The Countries of the V4 group, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, have been demonstrating a position of non-compliance with the quotas, for varying reasons. This paper follows the reasons for the objections posed by these countries both individually and as a unified group, while examining the political and legal instruments applied in the procedure. Through theories of European integration, this paper puts up hypotheses about the intergovernmental approach of the V4 states, as well as identifies unique cultural and historical common perception shaping the perspective of the group to the crisis.