Worse, the response to the plan – with some member states opting out of the program; others objecting to how the quotas are to be measured; and still others bristling at the idea that the EU should propose a quota at all – seems to suggest that it is every country for itself. Throughout these discussions, the line between asylum seekers and economic migrants, who are not protected by binding international humanitarian conventions, has been blurred.
更糟的是，上述计划所引起的反应——某些成员国选择退出计划；还有些反对配额的衡量标准；还有些根本不同意欧盟提出的配额理念——似乎证明欧盟国家都只在乎自己的利益。这些讨论模糊了庇护寻求者和不受国际人道主义公约保护的经济移民之间的界限。