Euro Commission chief says ‘no’ to Austria’s plea to quit refugee quota scheme

‘European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has rejected Austria’s request to allow it to withdraw from the mandatory EU refugee resettlement program that obliges it to accept more asylum seekers under the quota assigned to it by Brussels.
“Austria is legally bound to [participate] in the relocation [program] and I personally expect that Austria fulfills its obligations,” Junker wrote in an official answer to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern’s letter sent to the European Commission in late March, in which Kern outlined Austria’s reasons for quitting the relocation program.
At that time, Kern said that Austria had already fulfilled its obligations as it took more than its fair share of asylum seekers. The proposal to quit the program was introduced by Austrian Defense Minister Hans-Peter Doskozil, who said that Austria is already “one of the countries that bear the heaviest [refugee] burden.”’
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