PM Szydło rules out resettling migrants from Middle East

Prime Minister Beata Szydło said in an interview with weekly wSieci that Poland will not accept refugees or migrants from the Middle East quoting concerns over security as the reason. "The inflow of people form the Middle East to Poland is excluded, because neither us, nor the EU are able to create an effective system of discerning refugees from terrorists," the prime minister said. "There's no price for the security of Poles. We won't step back. It doesn't mean we don't want to help, but we will do so outside our borders," Szydło added. The prime minister also said that the visit of Pope Francis to Poland later this week could be at the scale of the visit of John Paul II in 1979. However, she stated that her view on resettling migrants is different from the pope's. "Taking in people of different culture to Poland who cause security problems is extremely difficult for us," Szydło said.