“What EU officials call a migration pact should rather be called a migration diktat. This is not about moving immigrants, it’s about moving financial and political responsibility,” MEP Izabela Kloc (PiS) said in an interview with PAP.
Displacement of financial and political responsibility
The authors of this idea openly say that there is no obligation to include illegal immigrants. Rather, it is about shifting financial and political responsibility. The de facto decisions taken determine the way in which protection monies are imposed on Member States for lack of willingness to take in migrants
– she said.
Now we all have to pay for the frenzied experiment that was the famous Wilkommenspolitik, the policy of mindlessly tolerating the illegal influx of immigrants. Today, the effects of this policy are clearly visible in the countries of Western Europe. People are tired of the chaos and declare their willingness to vote for those groups that vehemently oppose the unlimited influx of immigrants. The anti-system AfD has overtaken Chancellor Scholz’s party in the polls, and this is the real reason for the nervous actions of mainstream European politicians. It is good that the Polish government does not intend to succumb to moral and financial blackmail. Germans, not Poles, must pay for the mistakes of the German government
she added.
What is the so-called migration pact?
On Thursday, the EU Council adopted a negotiating position by qualified majority on the Regulation on the Asylum Procedure and the Regulation on Asylum and Migration. This position will form the basis for negotiations between the Council Presidency and the European Parliament.
so-called The Migration Pact includes the system of “compulsory solidarity”. It means that while “no Member State will ever be obliged to relocate”, “an annual minimum number of relocations will be set from the Member States where most people enter the EU to Member States less exposed to such arrivals”. This number was set at 30,000.
The minimum number of financial contributions per year is set at 20,000. euros for moving. These numbers can be increased if necessary and situations where no need for solidarity is foreseen in a given year are also taken into account
— we read in the communiqué of the EU Council. In fact, as a senior EU diplomat who took part in the negotiations explained to PAP, this means a choice between the relocation of migrants and a financial counterpart in the event of a lack of willingness to take them in.
Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration of the Republic of Poland, Bartosz Grodecki, who represented our country at the meeting, said during a break in the meeting in an interview with journalists that “the asylum system, which forces you to accept migrants, and in refusal provides for high penalties, has nothing to do with solidarity.”
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Source: wPolityce
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