At next week's meeting of the European Council, Poland will veto the EU migration pact, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced at his Friday press conference, in response to the preliminary agreement reached at Thursday's meeting of EU interior ministers.

He added that instead of stopping illegal immigration at its "sources" and Brussels securing the borders of the European Union, as Poland secures the Belarusian border, the European borders will remain open and the migration pact will be implemented.

He announced that at next week's meeting of the European Council, he will "say a firm no" to the pact's plan, and will maintain Poland's veto on illegal immigration. He reminded:

already in 2018, the government of the Law and Justice party blocked the plan to relocate the migrants.

Currently, Poland's voice "can and should be even stronger", he declared, referring to the fact that a referendum will be held on the day of the Polish parliamentary elections on October 15, one of the questions of which is precisely the Brussels proposal aimed at the distribution of asylum seekers among EU member states. applies. He called on voters to say no to the distribution of migrants in a referendum.

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"Let us Poles do this first, and our voice will be heard throughout Europe," he said, saying that the safety of Poles depends on the decision. "The reality of many European cities and suburbs today is destroyed streets, looted shops, rape of women, fear of walking in the evening," warned the prime minister.

Morawiecki pointed out to former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, the president of the main Polish opposition party, the Civic Platform, the former president of the European Council and then the European People's Party (EPP) that he supports the migration agreement together with Manfred Weber, the current leader of the EPP parliamentary group, and thus threatens the security of Poland.

"Tusk and Weber's party wants to pass the pact through the European Parliament next week,

which would ultimately force Poland to accept illegal immigrants," Morawiecki said.

"The EU bureaucrats disregard Poland's security, they simply want to implement their crazy plan," declared the Polish prime minister.

MTI

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