Gov't will hold session on refugees on Wednesday

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said on Friday that the government will hold a supplementary session on Wednesday, September 16 to debate the handling of the refugee crisis . “The voice of the Polish parliament must be a strong voice that is worthy of Poland, where 'Solidarity' was born,” she said. Ewa Kopacz appealed to political parties not to take advantage of the crisis.“If you now want to use this debate to argue that Poland should get out of the European Union, I say no." “You have the right to do so, but do not take advantage of this tragedy to start a row,” Kopacz said. 

On Wednesday, the European Commission announced that Poland would have to take in nearly 13,000 refugees under new obligatory quotas.