Kopacz: Poland will take in symbolic number of refugees

Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said in a televised address that Poland will accept a "symbolic" number of refugees, far less than 80,000 Chechens resettled in the 1990s. Kopacz said that Poland will only accept refugees and not economic migrants. "I can say today that there will not be too many of them. Definitely much fewer than in the '90s when Poland accepted more than 80,000 refugees from Chechnya." "The number of refugees that we would take is symbolic, it constitutes a small fraction of the whole," she added. Poland is expected to take in nearly 13,000 refugees under the mandatory quotas imposed by the European Commission.