WARSAW — Beata Szydło sought to deflect pressure for Poland to take asylum seekers by telling the European Parliament that the country is already doing its share.
“You speak of migration — that’s a serious problem. Poland has taken in around a million refugees from Ukraine. People whom no one wanted to help,” Poland’s prime minister said during a debate this week on the state of democracy.
The problem? Szydło’s numbers weren’t quite right. Poland actually received 4,616 asylum applications from Ukrainians in the past two years. Of those, two were accepted, according to the government’s Office for Foreigners.
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Source: European Voice
