Poland will oppose migrant quotas
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Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said at the EU-CELAC summit that Poland will form with the other V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) and Spain a joint front to oppose the EC's plan to impose quotas on asylum seekers.
"At the next sitting of the European council we will talk about the things that are also key for Poland, that is also quotas, which the Commission is trying to impose on us from above, despite the fact that at this council sitting we worked out a consensus for the final wording of the declaration in which we used the term ‘voluntary,’” said Kopacz.
The European Commission announced in May a program of mandatory redistribution of around 40,000 African and 20,000 Syrian asylum seekers in the European Union member countries. Under the plan Poland would resettle 2,659 African migrants (app. 6.56 percent of the total number) trying to cross Mediterranean Sea and 962 Syrian refugees.
