German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks forward to a successful resolution of the dispute between Brussels and Warsaw over the allocation of quotas for refugees. She stated this in the weekly video podcast, a new issue of which was published on Saturday.
“We have different views on the distribution of refugees, we need to continue negotiations on this issue, I’m betting that we will find a solidarity and European solution,” said the head of the German government on the eve of the visit of the Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki to Berlin.
In the fall of 2015, the EU countries decided to resettle 160,000 refugees in their territory, which were at that time in Greece and Italy. Quotas were distributed proportionally to the population of the countries of the community. Against the implementation of migration quotas are not only Poland, but also Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
“All of us, having joined the EU, have committed ourselves to respecting legal principles,” Merkel said, “and if there are any questions, doubts or criticism on this issue, they should be intensively discussed, therefore I expect that negotiations between the Polish PM and the European Commission will be very successful.”