EU interior ministers have agreed to reform the asylum system, which provides for greater solidarity with countries on external borders. But Poland is opposed.
Migration quotas criticized in Poland
Not all EU member states like migration quotas: after the EU asylum agreement, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced his disagreement with the planned solidarity mechanism for the mandatory admission of refugees.
“As long as our government exists, we will not allow any quotas, norms to be imposed on us for refugees from Africa, from the Middle East, for Arabs, Muslims or anyone else,” Morawiecki said in Warsaw.
On Thursday, EU interior ministers agreed in Luxembourg on new asylum procedures. The agreed plans provide for greater solidarity with the Member States that bear the brunt of the EU’s external borders. In the future, it should no longer be voluntary, but mandatory. Countries that do not want to accept refugees will be forced to make compensation payments. Poland, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and Bulgaria did not support the reform at the meeting.
However, it is quite possible that the EU Parliament will still insist on changes. He has a say in the reform and will discuss the draft with EU representatives in the coming months.
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