It appears that even the liberal, ultra-globalist Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is incapable of strong-arming his Eastern European country into accepting immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.
He wasn’t even going to try.
Now the EU approves new asylum and immigration system – Even though Poland voted against the entire so-called migration deal.
more importantly, Tusk refuses to accept illegal immigrants sent to Poland under EU “quotas” This is despite Warsaw having a “legal obligation” to do so under European rules.
In this case, Tusk, the defender of democracy, is virtually indistinguishable from Hungary’s “dictator” Viktor Orban, whose country also voted against the new rules.
While all this is happening, Tusk reportedly wants the EU to help build an “impenetrable” wall on the border between Russia and Belarus.
Under the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum (NPMA), adopted in April, each EU member state has an “obligation” to accept “some migrants” from Africa and the Middle East.
Donald Tusk reiterates that Poland “We don’t have to accept any immigrants, the EU won’t impose any immigration quotas on us.”
Sputnik reports:
“Refusing immigrants who have designated Poland as their new homeland by the EU will cost Poland 20,000 euros (about $21,000) – this is the standard set by the NPMA. But Tusk opposed it.
‘We will not pay any fees and will not accept any immigrants arriving from the other direction [except the Ukrainian one].The EU will not impose any immigration quotas on us” Tusk said in a statement posted on his office’s Twitter account. “But Poland will need EU financial support as it becomes the host country for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian immigrants.”
Poland’s (and Hungary’s) position was in direct contradiction to the norms of the new treaty.
But it’s a very popular position in Poland, where citizens strongly oppose hosting immigrants “From a faraway country”.
“Meanwhile, a recent survey by SW Research showed that 67% of Poles favor strengthening border security with Russia and Belarus. Building a 5.5-meter-tall, 400-kilometer-long wall would separate Poland from Belarus and Kaliningrad, Russia. Regions are segregated and costs are high.
In a speech in Krakow on Saturday, Tusk said Poland would invest in [the equivalent of] US$2.5 billion […] among these ‘dissuasion’ fortifications. Poland already spends 4% of its GDP on defence, so Tusk’s pledge to engage the EU was of little comfort to voters.
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