The measures have “clearly been effective” in their aim of reducing illegal migration, says the interior minister.
The measures have “clearly been effective” in their aim of reducing illegal migration, says the interior minister.
“We don’t want Poland sharing the fate of western Europe,” said the organisers.
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Aleks Szczerbiak
Migration may play a decisive role, although the main beneficiary could be the radical right.
“One must not succumb to the temptation to arouse hostility towards newcomers in the name of falsely understood patriotism or political calculations.”
The meeting went ahead anyway, with empty chairs left to represent the missing parties.
There are estimated to still be over one million Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
PiS argues that holding the votes simultaneously will be more cost-effective. But opponents accuse it of seeking to mobilise its supporter.
His words were criticised by the ruling PiS, but also by other opposition groups for entering a “bidding war” with PiS on anti-immigrant rhetoric.
This plan is clear: ‘No’ to the forced relocation of immigrants,” declared Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The Polish government’s claims are “not true”, says Ylva Johansson.
The opposition has accused the government of hypocrisy over migration.
Hungary and Poland were the only member states to vote against the EU’s new migration and asylum agreement.
“We must prevent a loss of control at the border,” say the interior ministers of Brandenburg and Saxony.
Belarusians made up the majority.