Foreign Minister on penalties for refusing asylum seekers

Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has criticized the European Commission's proposal to impose financial penalties on countries refusing to take their share of asylum seekers. "We would like to ask the European Comission not to take that route. The decision regarding quotas has been made... I keep wondering if this proposal is for real, because it sounds like an April Fool's joke," Waszczykowski told a press conference. On Wednesday, the European Commission revealed its plan to impose a sanction of €250,000 per person on countries that defy accepting refugees under the obligatory quotas scheme agreed in September 2015. In line with the accord, Poland pledged to resettle around 7,000 asylum seekers.