Szydło: Poland won't give in to blackmail over migration

Polish PM Beata Szydło said that Poland won't be forced by Brussels to accept migrants from the Middle East. “I am resistant to ‘blackmail and pressure’, which are used in Brussels,” Szydło said, commenting on the recent article in The Times, which reported that Poland and Hungary could be forced out of the EU if they do not comply to the EU migrant relocation policy. ““They will have to make a choice: are they in the European system or not? You cannot blackmail the EU, unity has a price,” a source told the British daily. “Since we took power in Poland, the government under my direction has made it clear that we will not accept such a solution because we recognize it as a bad thing, especially for Europe,” Szydło explained. In 2015, EU leaders decided that bloc’s member states would redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers, mostly from the Middle East, among themselves in order to alleviate pressure on Greece and Italy where most of the migrants arrived. According to the EU plan, Poland is set to accept 6,200 asylum seekers by September.