Tusk refused to honor EU pact and accept migrants in Poland

Poland will not comply with the European Union's (EU) "Migration Pact" and will not host migrants. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this during a joint press conference with the head of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, on 7 February.

He noted that this position finds understanding in the EC. Poland has already accepted almost 2 million Ukrainian refugees and does not plan to "assume any further obligations," Tusk emphasized.

"I have asked the Ministry of Interior and Administration and the Ministry of Justice to present a quick plan for an immediate response to organized crime committed by foreigners. Anyone who visits Poland and blatantly violates the law will be deported," Polish radio station RMF24 quoted the Polish prime minister as saying.

Earlier, on February 4, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Semoniak said that the country was not going to accept migrants and pay fines for it. He added that the crime rate in Poland is due to the influx of foreigners.

Before that, January 5, it was reported that Polish security forces beat up and threw a Senegalese man at the border with Belarus at night. In December 2024, Belarusian border guards found four beaten refugees from Morocco and Egypt on the border with Poland.

Back in May last year, Tusk said that the country would not accept illegal migrants within the framework of the "Migration Pact" adopted by the EU Council. He emphasized that the republic voted against the "Migration Pact". The prime minister also noted that the previous Polish government had also negotiated the pact.