Poland will veto the migration plan proposed by the European Union (EU), Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Friday.
Speaking to the press in Warsaw, Morawiecki reiterated his position against “the Brussels bureaucrats and their real bosses, who are in Berlin,” who have devised an “insane plan” that will “flood Warsaw with illegal migrants.”
“Instead of solving the problem of illegal migration at its source, instead of protecting the borders of the European Union, as Poland does, which has secured its border with Belarus,” the EU is trying to “protect the borders of to open Europe through a plan in the form of a migration pact,” the Polish leader accused.
Morawiecki stated that the EU “does not take into account the security of Poland” and attacked opposition leader and former President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, former head of government of Poland.
The Polish Prime Minister stated that Tusk “wants to promote a pact together [Manfred] Weber [líder do Partido Popular do Parlamento Europeu] to deceive the Poles”.
“Should we allow shootings on the streets of Polish cities? Should we allow attacks in Poland and riots in Polish cities so that the party of Tusk and Weber changes its position? Next week, during the European Council, I will say this clearly: ‘No!’ said Mateusz Morawiecki in statements broadcast on state television.
In June, Warsaw announced it would veto Brussels’ decision to forcibly relocate 120,000 migrants a year to EU countries or to make countries pay 20,000 euros for each migrant they do not receive on their territory.
Instead of, Morawiecki proposes a “secure borders plan” that includes “reforming” the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and “increasing the budget for the development of countries bordering the European Union.”
The party that has ruled Poland since 2015, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS), called for a referendum to be held simultaneously with the October 15 elections, in which it will ask Poles whether they should “allow the admission of thousands of illegal migrants from Poland ” supports. the Middle East and Africa, according to the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy.”
Source: DN
