Poland will not take in refugees under a hotly contested EU programme to distribute them among member States because of the Paris attacks, the country’s incoming European affairs minister said on Saturday.
“The European Council's decisions, which we criticised, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law,” Konrad Szymanski wrote on right-leaning website wPolityce.Pl. But “after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them,” he said.