{"id":308867,"date":"2017-05-19T06:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poland-says-taking-migrants-much-worse-than-eu-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T06:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T05:09:45","slug":"poland-says-taking-migrants-much-worse-than-eu-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poland-says-taking-migrants-much-worse-than-eu-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland says Taking Migrants \u2018Much Worse\u2019 than EU Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Taking migrants would do more damage to Poland than European Union (EU) sanctions, Interior Minister Mariusz\u00a0B\u0142aszczak\u00a0has said, after fresh warnings from Brussels over the country\u2019s refusal to welcome asylum seekers from the third world.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the EU setting a June deadline by which Poland and Hungary must take migrants from Italy and Greece or face sanctions, the minister\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiadomosci.onet.pl\/kraj\/mariusz-blaszczak-relokacja-uchodzcow-gorsza-niz-kary-ke\/t5ftxwe\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe security of Poland and the Poles is at risk\u201d from the bloc\u2019s relocation scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. B\u0142aszczak said giving in to the EU\u2019s demand that Poland welcome more than 6,000 asylum seekers would \u201ccertainly be much worse\u201d for the nation than the threat of punishment from Brussels, citing the terror threat in Western Europe as a result of immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mustn\u2019t forget the terror attacks that have taken place in Western Europe, and how \u00a0\u2014 in the bigger EU countries \u00a0\u2014 these are unfortunately now a fact of life,\u201d said the minister, pointing to demographic change as the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember that the now very numerous Muslim communities (in Western European countries) started out as relatively small numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EU quota scheme moving migrants from Italy and Greece \u00a0\u2014 where asylum seekers from the third world arrive in droves via boat \u2013 to other nations in the bloc only exacerbates the continent\u2019s problems with illegal migration according to B\u0142aszczak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell my counterparts in Western Europe that the relocation strategy only intensifies [illegal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/poland-says-taking-migrants-much-worse-than-eu-sanctions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking migrants would do more damage to Poland than European Union (EU) sanctions, Interior Minister Mariusz\u00a0B\u0142aszczak\u00a0has said, after fresh warnings from Brussels over the country\u2019s refusal to welcome asylum seekers from the third world. Reacting to the EU setting a June deadline by which Poland and Hungary must take migrants from Italy and Greece or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}