Anti-migrant rhetoric dominates politics in Poland
Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has declared that his government would refuse to accept any relocated asylum seekers under the EU’s proposed new migration pact. He added that he is opposed in general to the introduction of such a system.
The position of the Polish government [is that] we will not accept any forced mechanism [to relocate asylum seekers] and I want to assure you that Poland will not accept illegal migrants under any such mechanism,
- said Tusk on Wednesday.
“We will not accept a single migrant,” he added. “Poland will never be part of such a mechanism.”
The EU’s migration pact has become a highly charged political issue in Poland. The former conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government was strongly opposed to the plan, which includes a proposed mechanism for member states to either receive relocated asylum seekers from frontline countries or instead make “solidarity payments”.
Tusk himself served as president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, during which time the EU launched a previous system designed to redistribute asylum seekers from frontline countries to other member states.
Speaking yesterday, Tusk claimed that “when it comes to forced relocation, for years when I was the head of the European Council I was definitely against the so-called ‘forced solidarity'”.
“It was, among other reasons, because I was head of the European Council that this mechanism was never implemented,” he added.
In fact, the system was implemented and almost 27,695 were relocated under it before it was abandoned in late 2017. The previous year, Tusk told the European Parliament that “relocation is and will be one of the key elements of the European solution to the crisis” and called on member states to show “solidarity”.
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