But the Balkan refugee crisis was affecting EE countries as well, whereas now we hardly get any refugees
People fled during the Balkan civil war to Poland, Hungary or the Czech Republic? As far as I know most people fled to Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland (mostly Croatian and Bosnian refugees, the Serbian from Croatio and Bosnia fled to mostly to Montenegro and Serbia). I mean more people fled to Turkey during the Balkan wars then to Hungary or Poland.
Refugees and displaced people from the former Yugoslavia since 1991
Eastern Europe never had to deal with huge amount of refugees since the end of WW2. There were numerous crisis cause by the Soviets (Hungarian Uprising in 1956, Prague Spring in 1968, Marial Law in Poland during the 80s) and even then most people fled to Western Europe and not to neighboring EE countries (which is understandable since the Soviet Union controlled all these). Balkan civil wars = refugees go to Western Europe. Chechen war = refugees go to Western Europe.
... but it's the Western Europe that insists that immigration is everybody's problem and that we have to take part in the solution.
That's why it's called a Union. You do things together. Not always you will get exactly that what you want. Do you think that most Austrians are happy that they pay more into the EU then they get back? Do you think that Italian or Hungarian are supporting the sanctions against Russia? How about helping countries which struggle with refugees? Is Poland or any other EE country helping Greece currently? We're in this together.
Also why are you criticizing us, don't you have your own problems in your backward underdeveloped countries? Why are you not focusing on that instead?
Nobody says that besides people on reddit which don't have any influence on the current politics of the European Union.
