The European Parliament approved the migration pact in its vote on Wednesday. Regulation introducing the so-called mechanism voluntary solidarity was approved by 301 MPs, 272 were against and 46 abstained.
The Prime Minister said at a press conference in the Sejm that despite the EP’s decision, Poland would not agree to the relocation mechanism.
We will see exactly what the vote (in the European Parliament) looked like. But also, so that you have no doubts – Poland will not agree to the relocation mechanism one way or another. We will see what the final version of this pact will be, I have certain possibilities or the ability to build certain alliances and certainly the mechanism of relocation or paying for not accepting (migrants), this mechanism will not apply to Poland, Tusk declared.
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He did not rule out that after the elections to the European Parliament “the political structure of the EP will also change a bit, and we will return, one way or another, to this topic.” – But I want to reassure everyone. We will find – because we have already worked it out in our heads – ways that even if this pact comes into force in more or less the form in which it was voted on in parliament today, we will protect Poland against the relocation mechanism. – said the head of government.
Voting on the migration pact
In total, on Wednesday, the EP voted on ten legislative texts included in the pact. All of them were accepted. Activists opposed to the pact who were present in the Brussels meeting room tried to disrupt the vote.
The reform was proposed by the European Commission in 2016, but due to the proposed forced relocation, it was blocked by some member states. The EP voted on the new version initially agreed with the Council of the European Union in December 2023 and presented by the EC in 2021. It assumes two mechanisms to support countries under migration pressure.
Launching the so-called mechanism voluntary solidarity – enshrined in the regulation on migration and asylum management – will mean the deployment of at least 30,000 people every year. people. Member countries will alternatively be able to pay PLN 20,000. euro for each person not admitted or to take part in operations at the external borders of the Union.
The mechanism of the so-called enhanced solidarity – activated in emergency situations in which the number of people crossing the EU borders is so large that it threatens the efficiency of the system. Here, too, countries are to retain the ability to choose the aid path. The regulation on responding to crisis situations was adopted with the votes of 322 MPs, 266 were against and 31 abstained.
The migration pact will still have to be accepted by the Council of the European Union, in which the member states are represented. The Polish government announced a vote against it because, as the Ministry of Interior and Administration argues, work on the regulations ended a week after the current government was sworn in, and the result of this work, carried out by the previous team, is “far from sufficient”.
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