Poland shut down the possibility of accepting any new migrants in response to Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels, reneging on an earlier agreement the country made with the European Union.
“I’ll say very clearly, I see no possibility for migrants to arrive in Poland at this time,” Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said in an excerpt of an interview reported by The Wall Street Journal. That statement and her comments in a speech Wednesday made it clear Poland’s deal with the EU to resettle a certain number of migrants is off the table.
The Brussels attackers “made a mockery of the agreement,” Szydlo said in the speech Wednesday, signaling the country is no longer willing to work to unburden other EU countries overwhelmed with the flood of migrants. Germany alone is taking in one million migrants this year.
“Perhaps it’s time to bang a fist on the table and say ‘enough of terrorism,'” Szydlo said in a speech Wednesday. “Our children and countries are in danger and we’re all beginning to be afraid. Europe mustn’t be afraid. We must say enough.”
Germany and other European countries’ initial embrace of the migrants pouring out of North Africa and the Middle East sparked another wave in recent months, and there’s no letup in sight. Now Turkey and Greece have reached a deal to start returning some migrants from Greece back to Turkey in an effort to alleviate the burden on Europe.
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