Polish cabinet to discuss temporary suspension of asylum
The Polish Cabinet will discuss a temporary suspension of the right to asylum, along with a strategy for controlling irregular migration during its meeting on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced to a gathering of his ruling Civic Coalition that he intended to suspend the right to asylum at least temporarily.
“The state must regain 100 per cent control over who enters Poland,’’ he said.
Tusk added that he would push for recognition of this decision in the European Union.
He did not provide details of any new measures.
In Brussels, an EU Commission spokeswoman noted that member states were obliged under common rules to offer access to asylum procedures to those seeking protection.
Poland and the EU accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, of deliberately directing migrants from crisis regions to Poland’s eastern border with Belarus.
The border is simultaneously to the EU’s external border.
(dpa/NAN)
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