Moreover, some states are failing to adopt and apply standards of the Common European Asylum System that ‘comprises common refugee law in number of interlocking legislative instruments.’ (Guild, Costello, and others; 2015) In order to strengthen the common asylum policy of the EU, revise and improve the Dublin system, the European Asylum Support Office was established in 2010. This organization together with the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund provide financial support and helps in implementing the EU regulation on a member state level and make sure that ‘the EU states which are most affected by migration and asylum flows can count on solidarity from other EU states.’ (Havlova and Tamchynova; 2016) Despite the effort to promote and improve the common asylum and refugee policy, there is a certain level of resistance from some member states to implement regulation and coordinate their policies within the EU. This is especially relevant towards Central and Eastern European states. Their strong anti-migration rhetoric is a clear evidence of unwillingness to cooperate and lack of solidarity within European states. Central European response on refugee and migration crisis In recent times the level of Euroscepticism, if not euro-phobia, has risen. Central European states have made a clear point that they are not ready to accept a large number of refugees in their countries. They are turning towards a pro-national oriented policy and idea of closed and secure borders, which in a way brings xenophobia back to Europe. Quite often the countries of Central Europe — Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia — and the Baltics refer to the lack of financial capacities to accommodate migrants as well as unpreparedness of the society to welcome outsiders. ‘In Slovakia, we don’t have mosques, we only want to choose the Christians.’ Jaroslaw Kaczynsky, the leader of the Law and Justice Party in Poland, once said that migrants carry ‘various types of parasites, which could be dangerous here’. (Heisbourge; 2015) Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, frequently adopt restrictive regulation and reject asylum applications which make it harder for asylum seekers to enter and settle in the country. ‘According to Eurostat some countries such as Estonia, Lithuania and Portugal declined all of the asylum applications in 2015, while Latvia, Hungary and Poland recorded first instance rejection rate above 80 %.’ (Havlova and Tamchynova; 2016) In Hungary, the governor Viktor Orban has stated that ‘Hungary would like to remain a homogenous culture and illegal immigrants from outside Europe would endanger such a situation.’ (CITE) He also announced a plan to build a fence across Hungarian southern border with Serbia in order to stop further refugee flow. (Matthee; 2015) A political debate is supported by the public opinion towards refugees in Eastern European countries which is predominantly negative. In Slovakia, migration became a more prominent issue in the media, reflecting public concerns regarding security, economic cost, and cultural integration of refugees from Muslim countries. (Slovakia Questions) Anti-Muslim arguments are also supported by representatives from the religious community. For instance, Hungarian catholic bishop Laszlo Kiss-Rigo stated that ‘They’re not refugees. This is an invasion. They come here with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’. They want to take over.’(CITE) The catholic cardinal Dominik Duka from Czech Republic spoke in a similar way, saying ‘the right to life and security of Czech families and citizens are superior to all other rights.’ (Culik; 2015) In Poland, the ruling Law and Justice Party voted to keep immigration policy in the hands of Polish state, opposing the creation of the common EU mechanism of refugee relocation. Some politicians claimed that refugees from the Middle East create social tension and represent a security threat for some European countries, therefore Poland should keep the asylum and refugee policy in its own hands. National politicians made several anti-migration statements, claiming that some of the migrants are affiliated with international terrorist organizations. Poland is in favor of accepting Christians and grants asylum status to so called ‘religious minority’ representatives which refers mainly to Arab Christians from the Middle East. (CITE) The country is stated to accept at least 6,500 refugees from Greece and Italy over the next two years. (Rettman; 2016) Most of the arguments against accepting refugees from Eastern European states rise concerns regarding ‘cultural incompatibility, racial and religious difference, sec>