“If Poland decides not to physically take in migrants, it will have to pay 20,000 euros per person not accepted. I don’t think European bureaucrats will give this up,” said MP Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (Law and Justice, PiS) in an interview with Niezalezna.pl during a rally in Warsaw.
On Saturday afternoon, participants gathered at Castle Square in Warsaw for a rally organized by the Law and Justice party (PiS) to protest, among other things, against illegal migration and the Mercosur trade deal.
MP Kuźmiuk, whom we met at the demonstration, pointed to one key issue that brought crowds of patriots to the capital:
“Above all, the migration problem. Today, some new information appeared…”
This information, of course, refers to Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s social media post claiming that “there will be no relocation of migrants in Poland.” But Kuźmiuk doesn’t believe that version.
“The fact is that several regulations under the Migration Pact apply to all EU member states — there are no exceptions,” he told Niezalezna.pl.
“Indeed, the European Commission has significant powers, but I don’t believe it would exclude any country from the pact — that would cause the entire system to collapse. War refugees from Ukraine, proportionally to population size, are even more numerous in countries like the Czech Republic than in Poland. In my view, this is an attempt to downplay the significance of today’s event.
Poland, if it refuses to physically accept migrants, will most likely have to pay 20,000 euros per person not taken in. I don’t think European bureaucrats will abandon that. There will be no sentimentality here,” the opposition MP emphasized.