Poland’s right-wing prime minister brands an EU migration reform package a diktat from Brussels and Berlin and pledges a “firm veto.”
European Union member states on Wednesday agreed to the final part of an overhaul for rules on how they handle asylum seekers and irregular migrants.
The issue is set to figure prominently at two days of summits involving EU leaders in the Spanish city of Granada starting today.
Once implemented, the new Pact on Migration and Asylum would seek to relieve the pressure on so-called frontline countries such as Italy and Greece by relocating some arrivals to other EU states.
Those countries opposed to hosting asylum-seekers would be required to pay the ones that do take migrants in.
“A very clear question should be asked: why should we agree to a diktat from Brussels, a diktat from Berlin?” Mateusz Morawiecki says in a statement before leaving for Spain.
“I’m going to Granada for the summit of the European Council to put a firm veto,” Morawiecki says
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