Poland may have to accept immigrant distribution system

[Sally]

I don't think that all of the countries who are being forced to take in the refugees are that prosperous themselves or have their own troubles. I wonder how many refugees the oil rich Middle East countries have taken in.


Poland may have to accept immigrant distribution system
September 1, 2015

Poland may be forced to accept immigrants from troubled countries as Syria, Eritrea and Iraq as the EU authorities want them to be automatically distributed among member states, the daily Rzeczpospolita reports.

What may be consoling is that Brussels will pay for the maintenance of immigrants, up to several hundred million euro annually.

Poland is unwilling to accept the obligatory system of immigrants distribution, but is unlikely to ward off the pressure of Germany, which is determined to push the solution.

Poland and other central European states, which are concerned about threat from Russia, may count on the solidarity of Europe only when they get involved in the process of accepting immigrants, German daily Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung said.

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[aris2chat]

Icelanders have called on their government to allow more syrians to settle.

 

[waltky]

Poland adopts prudent policy...

Poland won't accept refugees after Paris attacks: Minister
Nov 14, 2015 : Poland will not take in refugees under a hotly contested EU programme to distribute them among member states because of the Paris attacks, the country's incoming European affairs minister said today. "The European Council's decisions, which we criticised, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law," Konrad Szymanski wrote on right-leaning website wPolityce.pl.

But "after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them," he said. "Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy," Szymanski insisted. Szymanski, who is to take the European affairs portfolio in conservative Prime Minister-designate Beata Szydlo's new government, said yesterday's attacks in Paris were "directly" connected both to the migrant crisis as well as French involvement in air strikes on Islamic State positions. He said Warsaw wanted to see the "revisiting of European policy in response to the migration crisis."

Incoming foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski added his voice to Polish concerns, saying Europe needed to "approach in a different fashion the Muslim community living in Europe which hates this continent and wishes to destroy it." PAP news agency quoted Waszczykowski as criticising the European Union's attempts to open its door to migrants fleeing the conflict in Syria as "a cul de sac." Szydlo's eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party won the October 25 election on a platform that included refusing migrants entry into Poland.

Under the EU relocation plan, 160,000 refugees registered in frontline states Greece and Italy are to be relocated around the 28-member bloc. Many eastern European countries have staunchly resisted taking a share of the burden. Speaking to reporters as he laid a wreath outside the French embassy in Warsaw for the Paris victims, Szymanski said Poland would only take in immigrants "if we have security guarantees." Poland, a country of 38 million, has to date taken in some 200 Syrian Christian migrants under the auspices of a private foundation.

The outgoing liberal government had declared readiness to take in more migrants than the 9,287 assigned to it under EU proposals without saying how far it would go beyond that figure. PiS chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski has repeatedly voiced opposition to Poland taking in migrants, instead proposing financial aid for the countries they first reach. Last month, Kaczynski warned migrants could spread diseases such as cholera, dysentery and "all sorts of parasites" which could "endanger local populations".

Poland won't accept refugees after Paris attacks: Minister - Times of India

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Paris attacks a 'violation of all religions': Saudi Arabia
Nov 14, 2015: The "heinous" Paris attacks are a violation of all religions and underline the need to intensify efforts against "terrorism", Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said today as he arrived in Vienna for talks on ending Syria's civil war.

"I wanted to express our condolences to the government and people of France for the heinous terrorist attacks that took place yesterday which are in violation and contravention of all ethics, morals and religions," Adel al-Jubeir told reporters in Vienna. "The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long called for more intensified international efforts to combat the scourge of terrorism in all its forms and shapes," he said.

The talks in Vienna involving some 20 countries and international organisations -- but no Syrian representatives -- are aimed at working out a roadmap to end the country's bloody civil war after almost five years of combat. But there are deep divisions, notably between Iran and Russia on one side and Western and Arab nations on the other, on the future of President Bashar al-Assad and which opposition groups to back.

Witnesses said that the gunmen who killed at least 120 people in the attacks late Friday in Paris shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") and blamed France's military intervention in Syria against Islamic State (IS) extremists.

Paris attacks a 'violation of all religions': Saudi Arabia - Times of India

 

[aris2chat]

Much of europe will follow. The threat to it's citizen is too high.