Poland warns UK over EU referendum

Poland’s secretary of state for European affairs Rafał Trzaskowski, told British newspaper the Observer that Poland rejects migrant benefits cut and pointed out that travel and jobs will be hit if UK quits the European Union. Trzaskowski said that the British people must "be told the brutal truth about the damaging consequences of leaving the European Union, and not be duped into believing that they can keep all the goodies and forget about the costs.” When asked if he fears that the people would vote for leaving the EU he said: "It really depends on how the whole thing is depicted by British political parties to the British people – what kind of alternative is painted. If you say you can leave and still be part of the internal market, keep your [second] houses, that you will still be free to travel, that there will be no customs duties, and so on – but that you will not have to accept free movement of workers, and you will not pay into the EU budget, of course people will vote [to leave] … but this is simply not true.” Trzaskowski reminded the Britons that they "cannot keep all the goodies and forget about the costs. Britain will still have to pay into the EU budget, just as the Swiss and Norwegians do." He also reiterated that Poland is rejecting Cameron's central demand  that social benefits should be denied to all EU migrants for at least four years after arriving in the UK.