No talks on a deal on taking back migrants occurred between Prague and Berlin and the Czech government would not join any deal on returning migrants who previously got registered in the other country, Czech PM Andrej Babis said in a statement sent to CTK on Saturday.
Babis denied the information of the DPA news agency that the Czech Republic is one of 14 EU countries who told German Chancellor Angela Merkel they were ready to sign a deal on the prompt return of migrants from Germany to the EU state in which the migrants got registered first.
“There was no negotiations between the Czech Republic and Germany on this issue and my government does not plan to join an agreement that would mean systematic accepting of illegal migrants,” Babis said.
“We will not take refugees who have not passed inspections and who are given this status from the migration-distribution centers [in the European Union]” Babish emphasized.