Sealing external EU borders a priority of V4: Polish Interior minister
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
21.11.2016 15:58
The Visegrad Group countries agree that they need to focus on sealing the external borders of the European Union amid the migration crisis, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has said.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak. Photo: PAP/Jacek Turczyk
The comments were made during a conference on Monday of the Visegrad Group countries, made up of Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, which was held in Warsaw on Monday. The meeting was also attended by delegations from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia.
“Visegrad states are in agreement: there should be a huge emphasis on sealing the external borders of the European Union,” Błaszczak said.
After coming to power in October last year, the Law and Justice (PiS) party said it was unhappy at the agreement by the former government led by the Civic Platform to accept 7,000 migrants as part of an EU-wide programme to resettle some 150,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who are in camps in Italy and Greece.
Following terrorist attacks in Brussels earlier this year, Szydło said that Poland would not be able to take in asylum seekers from the EU for now. (rg/pk)