Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki invited representatives of parliamentary clubs and circles to a meeting on forced displacement of migrants on Thursday; PiS, Konfederacja and PSL announced their arrival. The left and Poland 2050 say – no, and the Civic Coalition has not yet made a decision.
Morawiecki’s invitation
I believe that Poland unites us, that we can speak with one voice in Europe. The forced relocation mechanism poses a threat to Poland’s security. Yesterday, Commissioner Ylva Johansson spoke about the resulting financial sanctions
The head of government announced this on social media on Wednesday.
He stressed that PiS’s effective actions protected Poland from the Paris events in Warsaw.
All political forces must take a clear stand on this. That is why I invite all parliamentary clubs and circles to the conversation. Poland is our treasure that we must protect
emphasized the prime minister.
EU proposal and referendum
A meeting with representatives of clubs and circles is scheduled 11.
We would like all political forces to speak out unequivocally against the package, which involves the forcible displacement of migrants arriving illegally in the European Union
– said government spokesman Piotr Müller.
When asked what the government expected from the meeting, Müller said:
We hope that a consensus will be reached on this important issue for Poland.
We will convince all political forces that the referendum is also important in this area because it gives the EU institutions additional political legitimacy
– added.
At the moment we are dealing with a proposal from EU institutions, which assumes a forced relocation mechanism, and its non-implementation – fines of more than PLN 20,000. euros for each person not admitted by the country. We believe that this goes beyond the powers of the European Union, we would like to see a common position of all political forces in this area
he stressed.
I hope that we will hear mainly from the Civic Platform and other political parties that they do not agree with this mechanism
– added.
The head of the PiS club, the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, Ryszard Terlecki, has already announced his presence.
Who wants and who doesn’t?
However, it is not known whether representatives of the main opposition party will be present at the meeting with the prime minister. Asked by PAP on Wednesday, KO club head Borys Budka said the decision on the participation of a Civic Coalition representative in the meeting would be taken on Thursday.
Earlier, PO Secretary General Marcin Kierwiński tweeted that “Prime Minister Morawiecki invites the opposition to a meeting to divert attention from his own lies and disgrace about the regulation.”
A fire in… the Prime Minister’s office
– he added (this is about the draft regulation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the countries where foreigners can apply for a visa directly to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs – PAP).
Representatives of the PSL will be present at the meeting.
We participate in all meetings organized by the President or Prime Minister, and at this meeting I will personally present our proposals on migration
– said the leader of the People’s Party, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Krzysztof Bosak, the leader of the Confederation, is also expected to attend the meeting.
We believe that the relocation mechanism should be rejected. However, we also want the referendum to be expanded to include four questions related to the Polish government’s migration policy
Bosak said.
Representatives of the left refused to participate in Thursday’s meeting. The leader of the left-wing parliamentary club, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said in an interview with PAP that issues related to the movement of migrants in Europe are now a substitute topic and “a topic that doesn’t exist at all now”. The politician announced that the left will present its recommendations on how to act, think and talk about policies on migrants and refugees at a press conference on Thursday.
The politicians of Poland 2050 also refused to participate in the meeting.
It’s a very nice invitation, but we won’t accept it
– said the leader of Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia.
We will present our position on migration in writing to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, but we will not appear at his election site
– added.
The head of the Poland 2050 parliamentary group, Paulina Hennig-Kloska, also referred to the Prime Minister’s invitation.
6 percent GDP for education and the future of our children is a real need, and this immigrant gossip by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is campaign theatre. We will always talk about real problems, we always avoid meetings that fuel the Polish-Polish war. Tomorrow at 11 am I will be present at the budget debate in the Sejm
she wrote on Twitter.
On Friday, June 30, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a conference after the EU summit in Brussels that Poland is ready to prepare a court case at the CJEU in the event of an attempt to challenge the 2018 European Council conclusions on relocation. violate. He pointed out that Poland considers that the only applicable regulation is this decision of the 2018 European Council.
The conclusions of the June 2018 EU summit make it clear that migrants entering the EU should be referred “on a voluntary basis” to centers set up in Member States, where a distinction is made between irregular migrants who should leave the EU and those those in need of international protection. These conclusions also state that “in the context of these centers relocation and resettlement will be voluntary”.
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, who visited the Italian island of Lampedusa on Tuesday, where hundreds of migrants from North Africa are arriving, said at a press conference that “if a country doesn’t get involved in the movement of +migrants+, it has to pay, not only to countries under pressure, but also to third countries.
These words were said a few days after an interview with TVN24, in which Johansson said that the so-called migration pact, ie the EU agreement on the relocation of migrants, is not mandatory.
In mid-June, the Sejm passed a resolution expressing opposition to the EU’s mechanism for the relocation of illegal migrants, which commits the government to vigorously oppose the proposal. PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński declared in the Sejm that the issue of relocation of migrants in the European Union should be the subject of a referendum.
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Source: wPolityce