Poland to resist EU migrant quotas

Poland will contest EU plans to force member states to accept migrant quotas, the interior minister said on Thursday.

PAP sources say that the European Commission is considering a plan to reset 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers to EU countries, with the possibility of increasing the number to 120,000.

A previous quota plan, launched in 2015 at the height of that year's migration crisis, faced a fierce opposition from Poland and other EU states.

The EC has taken steps to arrest Poland for violating EU law.

Mariusz Kaminski, speaking at Titter, said there was no and there will be no consent to the forced removal of migrants to Poland. On Wednesday Ylva Johannson, the EC's home affairs commissioner, also proposed introducing a fee of Euro 22,000 for every migrant turned away by countries that refuse to accept quotas.

Poland's ambassador to the EU, Andrzej Sados, said during talks with Johansson that demanding a payment of EUR 22,000 per person is in gross disproportion to the EUR 200 per capita EU has provided as aid for over a million refugees from Ukraine residing in Poland.