Slovenia Opposed to Binding Refugee Quotas in EU

Luxembourg, 16 June - Slovenia set out its case against binding quotas on EU member states in accepting refugees arriving in the bloc via the Mediterranean from crisis regions in Northern Africa and the Middle East, as Interior Minister Vesna Györkös Žnidar took part in a EU ministerial in Luxembourg on Tuesday.

Ljubljana Interior Minister Vesna Györkös Žnidar (left) discussing with MPs possible implications on national securtity of Slovenia's accepting refugees at a session of the parliamentary home committee in early June 2015. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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Interior Minister Vesna Györkös Žnidar (left) discussing with MPs possible implications on national securtity of Slovenia's accepting refugees at a session of the parliamentary home committee in early June 2015.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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