1686696707 Poland mobilizes to block EU migration deal on national security

Poland mobilizes to block EU migration deal on ‘national security’ grounds

Poland is mobilizing to block the European Union’s migration agreement. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki filed charges this Tuesday against the European regulation which, for the first time, establishes a solidarity-based distribution of migration flows and their management among member states, setting a quota for resettled asylum seekers or a contribution to the common piggy bank of 20,000 euros per rejected migrant. To fuel the xenophobic and anti-immigrant discourse, Morawiecki pointed to “national security” and that Polish families oppose the community pact, which has yet to be negotiated with the European Parliament to get the text of the final regulation. Both Warsaw and Budapest, which voted against the agreement, want to block rule there.

“The EU is trying to force Poland to take in illegal immigrants from other countries or make us pay for it,” the Polish Prime Minister said on his social networks. “As long as PiS reigns [su partido, el ultraconservador Ley y Justicia]”We won’t allow that,” Morawiecki added. In recent days, the PiS government has assured that it will mobilize to derail the deal. Poland asserts that the new regulation, guided by the premise of “flexible but binding solidarity”, violates the principle of voluntariness that Warsaw upholds in migration policy, and although it has not presented a study to support this argument, reiterates it it that the new formulas will increase the flow of arrivals.

EU interior ministers on Thursday agreed on a quota of 30,000 relocations per year between member states (excluding host states, which suffer the most migratory pressures and can be disregarded in distribution and payment) or a quantifiable financial or logistical one Contribution to the Community Solidarity Basket as announced by EL PAÍS. In addition, the entry and leadership requirements are tightened and the repatriation options for rejected asylum seekers are expanded. If agreement is reached in the negotiations with the European Parliament, the EU will distribute the resettled among the partners, taking into account their population and GDP.

Hungary’s ultra-conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is also opposed to the agreement, saying that introducing a migrant quota would go against the decision of the Hungarian people. “Brussels cannot abuse its power. “Nobody can tell the Hungarians who we have to live with,” he began on his Facebook page.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on June 1 in Bulboaca (Moldova). Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on June 1 in Bulboaca (Moldova). VLADISLAV CULIOMZA (Portal)

The deal was approved by a qualified majority in the EU Interior Council, with Poland and Hungary voting against and Lithuania, Malta, Bulgaria and Slovakia abstaining. Now Orbán and Morawiecki want to put the already agreed agreement back on the table at the European summit at the end of the month, because at the meetings of the heads of state and government, Warsaw was unanimously approved from the start and Budapest sought a veto against the pact. Meanwhile, Poland is talking about promoting a coalition with the European Parliament to stop the future regulation at the stage of “trilogues” in which representatives of the EU Council, the Commission and the European Parliament give the green light to a final regulation.

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Families with children under the age of 12

At this stage, Germany also wants to introduce some of the demands it had to give in to when implementing the agreement: the exception to house families with children under 12 in special centers where they will wait for a while. The procedure includes asylum seekers from countries , which accepted less than 20% of the applications.

Poland has also indicated that it will not honor the agreement when it comes to distributing the resettled people or making payments to the solidarity basket. “We have the right to reject them and to take action against this decision,” said Prime Minister’s spokesman Piotr Müller. However, the treaties stipulate that Warsaw must abide by the agreements. Otherwise, the umpteenth EU dispute would begin with infringement proceedings against the idiosyncratic partner. Poland has already blocked €35.360 million from the EU recovery fund for failing to comply with measures required by the EU rule of law. Hungary blocked 27.8 billion euros.

In Poland too, where parliamentary elections will be held in the fall and where the migration debate may return to the political table, the issue will remain topical in the coming weeks. The anti-EU Sovereign Poland party, the junior partner in the governing coalition PiS, has announced that it will submit a draft resolution to the Polish parliament against the so-called “forced resettlement of immigrants”.

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