“In 2015, the PO-PSL government adopted solutions regarding the relocation of migrants, and then everyone threatened us to participate in it. Donald Tusk, already president of the European Council, threatened that non-participation could have consequences. And what? And there were no consequences for Poland. You just have to do your job, submit our comments and vote against these solutions at every stage,” said Prof. Karol Karski, PiS MEP.
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the summit of the European Council opposes the solutions of the so-called migration pact. Why this strong opposition? Perhaps it is worth agreeing with this solution, since only Poland and Hungary were explicitly against it?
These are security issues that remain within the competence of the Member States. When such solutions were first attempted to push through in 2015, the European Council confirmed that they would be adopted unanimously and by consensus. The legal status is clear, but we are dealing with a situation where it is once again clear to the naked eye that the EU institutions are not a rule of law state. In violation of EU law, including treaties, Germany is trying to push through such decisions. Contempt for others on the part of Germany is rather symptomatic here, “information rats” are released, including in the Polish media space through various channels – they report that some agreements have allegedly been reached. When none of that happened.
According to these reports, it was clear from the outset that Poland could apply for exclusion from the migration pact due to the acceptance of many refugees from Ukraine. Does it make sense to submit an application?
Here’s the pitfall of “Recognize that such a mechanism can work and then you can apply for an exemption. We’ll fire you or we won’t.” It’s like saying to someone, “I agree that you are a dog with all the consequences that entails, including being on a leash and wearing a muzzle, but you can request not wearing a muzzle and we will to consider.” The European Commission does not have to respond positively to our application, and if it did, it could say in six months’ time that the exemption will not be extended. And the permanent mechanism would remain. Onet recently published an interesting interview by Dorota Bawołek with the Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, Ylva Johansson. Reading this interview definitely confirms the belief that the EC is once again playing us unfairly. Commissioner Johansson says that a solution has been devised especially for Poland. But there are no precise guarantees. There are only circular, non-binding generalities. The height of dishonesty is that, when asked about migration problems in Sweden, she says they don’t exist there. You can see with the naked eye that someone is trying to make the mechanism permanent and tempting us with the possibility of requesting deviations. In 2015, the PO-PSL government adopted solutions regarding the relocation of migrants, and then everyone threatened us to participate in it. Donald Tusk, already president of the European Council, threatened that non-participation could have consequences. And what? And there were no consequences for Poland. You just have to do your job, submit our comments at each stage and vote against these solutions. They must be adopted unanimously, regardless of what the German Chancellor says. If decisions on the Migration Pact have been taken in violation of the EU treaties, that is simply not allowed. Poland is being talked about here, but I am also concerned about Germany. They have no right to destroy their country through ill-considered migration policy, because it is a system of interconnected ships, soon we may have many ethnic Germans in our country asking for refugee status.
Do you think the situation in Germany could get so bad that ethnic Germans would flee to Poland?
This is what I fear, the wave of migration from Germany, and we will not be able to accept every German, despite our good will.
However, if the EU recognizes that the Migration Pact was lawfully adopted by a qualified majority of Member States’ representatives, then what?
Proceed exactly as you did in 2015 – then we were in an even worse situation than now, because then our predecessors, the PO-PSL government, agreed to relocate migrants. We are now in a better position to reject it on the basis of the mechanisms developed at the time, namely the affirmed unanimity requirement. Let’s not forget that the Germans then adopted the idea that they would get migrants and carry out their selection. Those who are fit for work, want to work and are not a threat can stay there and the rest are forced to move to other Member States. This is an extremely selfish and dangerous approach by the EU.
Professor, are you not afraid that if Poland ignores the agreements in the migration pact, our country will in any case bear the financial costs of this situation – that is, fines for not accepting immigrants will be deducted from EU funds allocated to owe Poland?
With that in mind, we should immediately sign the act of unconditional surrender. So far, no penalties have been imposed on Poles for not being allowed to participate in the relocation of migrants. Moreover, these people want to go to France or Germany, should we handcuff these people to a tree so that they do not run away? Of course not. At the same time, Germany wants to abolish its obligation to pay all social benefits to forced relocations, thereby expelling the unwanted part of the migrants from their country. However, it doesn’t work that way. Entire parallel societies already live there and they all feel at home there.
Adam Stankiewicz spoke
Source: wPolityce