After the end of the EU summit, Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed the hope that the announcements of restrictions on the right to asylum would discourage illegal migration to Poland. He also emphasized that the EU migration pact is not the answer to this problem. The conclusions of the summit emphasized, among other things, that Russia, Belarus and any other country cannot abuse the right to asylum. Solidarity was also expressed with Poland and Member States facing related challenges. The Polish Prime Minister argued that he had achieved what he wanted. Is it real?
Story versus reality
Let us not forget that shortly after the summit, the Euractiv portal published the contents of the European People’s Party statement, which shows that the Polish government’s opposition to the implementation of the European Migration Pact is weakening. This therefore contradicts the words of the Polish Prime Minister.
The statement included a reference to the need to implement the migration pact. In it, the EU called for solutions to the problem of illegal migration, “one of the most important challenges facing Europe today”.
READ MORE: Did Donald Tusk lie again? The Euractiv portal found the EPP’s statement: Poland’s resistance to the implementation of the migration pact weakened
The Politico website reports that the European Commission will be working on legislation that would facilitate deportations from the European Union. However, this is still a long way to go.
After the summit, Prime Minister Tusk said it is becoming increasingly clear to European leaders that “the existing methods, including the migration pact, are not the answer to the threat posed by mass, illegal migration.” He admitted that it was known that the provisions of the pact would not be amended or “repealed” in any way at this meeting of the European Council.
But before the European Council there was speculation that there would be some provisions that would accelerate and strengthen this. The status quo was maintained and Poland understood that some applications of the Migration Pact could be unfavorable in this situation where we are attacked by this organized migration (…).
– said the Prime Minister.
What is Tusk going to do about it?
Meanwhile, as Border Guard spokesman Lieutenant Colonel SG Andrzej Juźwiak told PAP, from the beginning of the year until the end of September, a total of 570 foreigners were transferred from Germany to Poland on the basis of readmission agreements and the Dublin III agreement. ; most of them are Russian citizens.
Data from the Polish Border Guard shows that between January 1 and September 30 this year, a total of 570 foreigners were transferred from Germany to Poland – most of them Russian citizens – under readmission and Dublin III agreements. In 2023 there were more than 900 such transfers. For comparison: a year earlier there were more than 600 foreigners, the largest group of whom were Georgian citizens.
According to the website of the daily newspaper “Welt”, which referred to data from the Federal Police, more than 10,000 people were found during checks at the border with Poland in Brandenburg in the period from October 2023 to the end of August 2024. unauthorized entry. 5.1 thousand people were turned back at the border.
READ MORE: Will Tusk do anything about this? Germany is sending immigrants back to Poland en masse! From January to September they sent 570 people to our country
“‘Donald Tusk deceives Poland’
In turn, former head of Polish diplomacy Witold Waszczykowski warns in a message published on the X platform that the suspension of asylum rights will only apply to people from the East. “The movement of illegal migrants from Western Europe will not be limited,” he emphasizes.
In Brussels they reveal that the suspension of asylum law will only apply to people from the East. The movement of illegal migrants from Western Europe will not be limited. Donald Tusk deceives Poland. He was neither against Brussels nor against Berlin
– wrote the former head of Polish diplomacy.
kk/Politico/X
Source: wPolityce