STRASBOURG, France – European Migration Commissioner, Greece’s Dimitris Avramopoulos, castigated European Council President Donald Tusk for wanting to end refugee asylum quotas and leave the problem with Greece and Italy, where scores of thousands were abandoned when the EU closed its doors to them.
Speaking out after wavering for nearly two years and not pushing other EU countries to honor now-abandoned pledges to take in refugees and migrants, Avramopoulos noted the proposal by Tusk was “unacceptable” and “anti-European.”
Tusk originates from Poland, one of several EU countries who will be taken to the European Court for Justice for refusing to take in refugees and migrants and his move, in open conflict of interest, would protect his homeland although his position represents the heads of state of all 28 countries.
“It denies, it ignores, all the work that we have done during the past three years,” he said, adding that Tusk’s proposal also undermines “one of the main pillars of the European project, the principle of solidarity,” he said, according to Greece’s Kathimerini newspaper.
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