Macron wants Poland to send soldiers to Africa
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On February 3, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron began a two-day official visit to Poland. At noon, President Andrzej Duda welcomed Macron in the courtyard in front of the Presidential Palace in the capital Warsaw.
The first point of the visit was the talks between the two leaders. The French president will also meet, among others, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the speakers of the lower and upper houses of the Polish parliament.
As the Paris correspondent of private broadcaster RMF FM learned, during his visit to our country, Macron will urge the Polish authorities to participate in the French-armed intervention of Barkhane against jihadists in the Sahel region in northern Africa. The French president will want to link this to the intra-EU dispute over the mass reception of African immigrants.
One of Macron's advisers suggested that France could easily agree that Poland would refuse to receive new arrivals from Africa on the condition that the authorities in Warsaw will participate financially in EU immigration policy and will be more actively involved in activities in Sahel.
(RMF FM)
