Poland will not participate in the European Union’s (EU) planned distribution of migrants among bloc countries, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraweckis announced on Friday, expressing his position a day after EU interior ministers agreed on a plan that provides for stricter rules in the area of asylum, including mandatory quotas.
As the Polish Prime Minister said, as long as his national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is in power, “we will not allow any migration quotas for refugees from Africa, from the Middle East, Arabs, Muslims or whatever is imposed on us.”
Poland is successfully dealing with the biggest refugee crisis after the Second World War, Polish Minister of European Affairs Szymon Šynkowski vel Senk said on Twitter, referring to the 1.6 million war refugees from Ukraine.
“We will not accept the absurd ideas that are imposed on us,” said the minister.
Poland, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and Bulgaria oppose the EU asylum policy reform plan.
Consensus of the member states is not necessary to make a decision on the bloc’s migration policy. A qualified majority is enough – at least 15 of the 27 EU countries, which make up at least 65% of the EU population.
Budapest also criticized the deal on Friday. Hungarian Interior Ministry State Secretary Bence Rötvári accused Brussels of “abusing power” and planning to “turn every country in Europe into an immigration country at any cost.”
With the new plans, the EU intends to divide the migrants “by force”, he told Hungarian television.
The EU does not recognize that Hungary protects the EU’s external border and refuses to cover the relevant costs of 1.5 billion euros, said Rētvāri, referring to the border fence that Hungary built on the border with Serbia in 2015.
2023-06-09 18:27:17
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