Kaczyński blames EU migrant crisis on Merkel

Leader of the Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) Jarosław Kaczyński blamed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the ongoing migrant crisis in the EU. “ We have not opened Europe for refugees, Merkel has. And it is Merkel and Germany that have to bear the consequences, not Poland,” he said in an interview with TVP Info. Last week, the European Commission, called for EU member states to start accepting asylum-seekers by June, according to previous agreements, or they could face consequences. The only two member states, which did not took in a single person are Poland and Hungary. Under a plan agreed in 2015, the European Commission wants EU member states to each admit a quota of the 160,000 asylum seekers stuck in Italy and Greece. Most have fled conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.