Fico’s comments come after Poland also rejected the rules for sharing out between EU states the task of hosting refugees and migrants arriving outside of regular border crossings.
Hungary was also against, a government spokesman said last week, adding Budapest considered the system “not workable”.
“It’s doomed to fail,” Zoltan Kovacs told journalists.
Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest are far short of votes to sink the deal on their own. Member states that violate shared laws can be sued by the bloc’s executive European Commission and eventually be fined by the top EU court, the European Court of Justice. All three countries have lost migration cases there before.
Since taking power in Slovakia for the fourth time, Fico has spoken out against some EU policies, including on Russia’s war in Ukraine, as well as seeking to engage more with China.
At the same time, his changes to the judiciary at home have raised concern over damaging democracy in Slovakia, something that could hurt the flow of EU funds to the country of nearly 5.5 million people in the bloc’s east.
With inputs from Reuters
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