Poland’s new government won’t accept migrant quotas imposed by the European Union, as the terror attacks in France have exposed the weakness in the bloc, the nation’s future minister for European affairs said.
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“The attacks mean there’s a need for an even deeper revision of the European policy regarding the migrant crisis”. “We’ll accept (refugees only) if we have security guarantees”.
In September, the E.U. agreed to a program to help countries on the front lines of the refugee crisis (Italy, Greece and Hungry), by spreading 120,000 from those countries across the Union, which is made up of 28 countries.
These attacks came at a time, when thousands of migrants are seeking refuge in Europe, fleeing for war and poverty in Syria, Africa, and Afghanistan.
The latest on the deadly shootings and explosions in Paris.
Szymanski will take up his position as minister for European affairs on Monday as part of a government formed by the conservative and Eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party, which won a general election last month. “Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy”, Szymanski insisted on the site.
Thomas de Maiziere, the country’s interior minister, told reporters Saturday following the attacks in Paris that German security agencies were keeping a close eye not only on Islamic extremists “but also the far-right extremists who might react to such an attack”.
“We believe”, she said, “in the right of every person to seek happiness and to enjoy it, in the respect for others and in tolerance”.
One of the attacker was carrying a Syrian passport, which showed that the person entered through Greece along with the migrants, which makes things more worrying, like a few political analysts, leaders have been arguing sighting the possibility of such, Islamic state militants slipping into Europe, along with needful migrants.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also tweeted: “We are watching overwhelmed”.
In the hours that followed the carnage in Paris, President François Hollande announced a state of emergency and the closure of the country’s national borders.
If Europe’s external borders could not be protected, Germany had to secure its own frontier, he said. The decision was condemned by the country’s ruling nationalist party.
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A statement issued after the meeting says the Security Council “emphasizes that a fence would not be aimed at closing the border, but channeling and limiting the flow of the migrants”.
