Polish minister says accepting refugees now impossible

14 November 2015, 4:59 pm

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Poland will not take in refugees under a hotly contested EU program to distribute them among member states because of the Paris attacks, the country’s incoming European affairs minister says.

“The European Council’s decisions, which we criticized, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law,” Konrad Szymanski writes on right-leaning website wPolityce.pl.

But “after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them,” he says. “Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy.”