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Poland says Taking Migrants ‘Much Worse’ than EU Sanctions

18-5-2017 < Red Ice Creations 55 142 words
 
Poland says Taking Migrants ‘Much Worse’ than EU Sanctions Taking migrants would do more damage to Poland than European Union (EU) sanctions, Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has said, after fresh warnings from Brussels over the country’s refusal to welcome asylum seekers from the third world. Reacting to the EU setting a June deadline by which Poland and Hungary must take migrants from Italy and Greece or face sanctions, the minister said “the security of Poland and the Poles is at risk” from the bloc’s relocation scheme. Mr. Błaszczak said giving in to the EU’s demand that Poland welcome more than 6,000 asylum seekers would “certainly be much worse” for the nation than the threat of punishment from Brussels, citing the terror threat in Western Europe as a result of immigration. “We mustn’t forget the terror attacks that have taken place in Western…
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