“The reaction to the wave of refugees we have seen should be one of compassion and empathy”, Dujarric said. But the Paris attacks that killed more than 125 people were being presented by right-wing groups as proof that her open-door policy exposes Germany to anger over Western airstrikes aimed at wiping out Islamic State. Poland’s conservative Euroskeptic has demanded for “security guarantees” prior to allowing any refugee to enter the nation’s border.
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“This is a key condition that today was put under a giant question mark in all of Europe”, Konrad Szymanski said.
The fresh criticism of the plan emerged after officials in Greece said a Syrian passport found at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October.
Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II is entering a perilous phase, as the usual pattern of migrant season ending by autumn is overturned by intensifying fighting in Syria and overcrowding in refugee centers.
Szymanski’s comments on the right-wing nationalist website wpolityce.pl made clear that Poland’s new government will not comply with the European Union refugee relocation program.
Soeder, whose party has been critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy on migrants, added that, “Paris changed everything” and that, “This is no time for uncontrolled immigration”.
“Until these are ended, we need to help them survive and be sheltered in our country”, said the 72-year-old. “Tens of thousands of young men disembark from their rubber dinghies with iPad in hand and instead of asking for drink or food, they ask where they can charge their cellphones”. According to the plan, which was agreed to by Poland’s outgoing center-right, pro-EU government, Poland was set to accept an additional 4,500 refugees, on top of the 2,000 it has already accepted. But Juncker said that “those who organised, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite”. “As a result, there are no grounds to revise Europe’s policies on the matter of refugees”.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said Europe has failed to put enough emphasis on security when dealing with the migrant crisis and that as long as security along the outer Schengen border is not restored, individual countries must ensure it, CTK reported.
Szymanski will take up his position on Monday as part of a government formed by the last month’s election victor, the conservative and eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party.
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“We have been saying for several months that the security risks linked to migration are huge”, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said, The Slovak Spectator reports, citing the TASR newswire. “We can expect even bigger mobilization of security forces”.
