The EU interior ministers have agreed on a reform of the asylum system that provides for more solidarity with the countries on the external borders. But Poland is opposed.
After the EU asylum agreement, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced opposition to the planned solidarity mechanism for the mandatory admission of refugees.
“As long as there is the PiS government, we will not allow any migration quotas, quotas for refugees from Africa, from the Middle East, for Arabs, Muslims or whoever, to be imposed on us,” Morawiecki said in Warsaw.
On Thursday, the interior ministers of the EU member states agreed in Luxembourg to tighten up the asylum procedures. The approved plans also provide for more solidarity with the heavily burdened member states at the EU’s external borders. In the future, it should no longer be voluntary, but mandatory. Countries that do not want to take in refugees would be forced to pay compensation. The reform was not supported at the meeting by Poland, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
However, it is conceivable that the EU Parliament will still push through changes. It has a say in the reform and will negotiate the project with representatives of the EU states in the coming months.
Source: Stern
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