The EU Council has freed Warsaw from its obligations under the bloc\u2019s solidarity mechanism starting from 2026, Donald Tusk has claimed<\/p>\n
The European Council has exempted Poland from the requirement to take in migrants starting from next year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed.
\nThe EU has been grappling with mass immigration over the past two decades, since contributing to the implosion of Libya and Syria in 2011 and 2014 respectively, as well as backing the escalation of Kiev\u2019s war with Moscow in February 2022, triggering waves of incoming people numbering in the millions.
\nIn a post on X following a European Council meeting in Brussels on Monday, Prime Minister Tusk wrote that \u201cPoland has been exempted from the obligation to accept migrants under the EU\u2019s relocation mechanism.\u201d
\nThe EU\u2019s Pact on Migration and Asylum stipulates that all member states must contribute, in proportion to their population and total GDP, to the alleviation of migratory pressure on the worst-affected nations within the bloc.
\nEach member state is obliged to either accept a certain number of migrants relocated from the hotspots or shell out \u20ac20,000 ($23,000) per person they refuse to take in.
\nIn an X post of his own on Monday, Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski stated that a \u201ccompromise was achieved regarding the solidarity mechanism,\u201d with Warsaw exempt from \u201crelocation, financial contributions, and other instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Polish media quoted the minister as saying that the \u201ccountries of the South are dissatisfied\u201d with the outcome, apparently referring to Italy, Spain, Greece. The latter have seen particularly high numbers of newcomers illegally arriving on their shores in recent years.
\nIn November, Poland, along with Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, made it clear they were prepared to challenge the EU leadership over the migrant relocation mechanism, according to Euronews.
\nMeanwhile, in neighboring Germany, an association representing organizers of traditional Christmas markets warned last month that rising security costs could lead to the number of traditional open-air events going down this year.
\nChristmas markets have been the target of multiple high-profile terrorist attacks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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