MSW: receiving refugees should be voluntary – Puls Biznesu

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday the deployment in the EU countries 40,000 refugees who come across the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece. For the Polish would hit 2,659 people.

“This is a proposal. These issues continue to be discussed within the framework of European structures. Each country knowing your capabilities should make the decision yourself. We continue to believe that this issue should be voluntary preserved “- told PAP spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry.

” Given that the situation in Ukraine is unstable, we must reckon with the fact that the people of Ukraine will seek help and support from us. For this we must be prepared “- she said Wozniak.

The government spokesman Civic Platform deputy told PAP that Poland wants to show solidarity in terms of accepting refugees, but – as reserved – all decisions about the facts must remain the responsibility of Member States, on a voluntary basis.

“We do not change opinion on this matter, we want to talk about it, because we will still accept refugees from Ukraine, the Christians of Syria. Poland wants to take (refugees), but we do not want (to agree) on specific numbers “- he reserved. Civic Platform deputy expressed hope that this question will at the next European Council.

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said on Tuesday that Poland will adopt the 60 families from the conflict affected Syria. The deadline and details are not yet known.

Proposed by the European Commission measures are to relieve the countries in the south of the EU which receive tens of thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East. The EC wants the other EU countries have taken over two years to 24 thousand. immigrants from Italians and 16 thousand. from the Greeks. The system will include those immigrants who genuinely need international protection and can count on the status of refugees, or refugees from Syria and Eritrea.

The refugees would be deployed in different EU countries according to a key based primarily on the GDP and population as well as the level of unemployment and the number of refugees already in the past five years. According to these criteria Poland is expected to adopt 6.65 percent. Most trafiłoby to Germany – approx. 22 percent.

The European Commission also proposes that – apart from the acquisition of 40 thousand. immigrants from Italy and Greece – Union countries have pledged to resettle within two years 20 thousand. refugees currently in camps outside the EU, mainly Syrians. As part of the Polish resettlement would hit 962 people, but participation in this program is voluntary.

Presented on Wednesday proposals are part of a new strategy for the EU’s migration policy, which is responding to the growing wave of immigration across the Mediterranean Sea and the increasingly more frequent disasters ships with immigrants.