WARSAW — The right-wing Polish government is under fierce pressure from the EU to finally begin accepting asylum seekers. But it’s the country’s leading opposition party that’s paying the political price.
Poland, along with Hungary, has flatly refused to take in any refugees under a 2015 deal that was supposed to allocate 160,000 people among EU member countries in order to take the load off Greece and Italy.
Warsaw shrugged off the threat. “In agreeing to take in refugees, the [previous government] put a ticking bomb under us,†Justice Minister Mariusz BÅ‚aszczak told reporters in Brussels. “We’re defusing that bomb.â€
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Source: European Voice
