Poland plans to approve this Tuesday a temporary suspension of the right to asylum as part of the fight against irregular immigration. This is a further crucial step in the tightening of migration policy which extends across the continent and which endangers the new European pact on migration and asylum even before its entry into force. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, from the political family of the European People’s Party, who threatened to violate these new European rules, defended the temporary suspension of the right to asylum, which coincides in time with decisions, such as that of Germany must impose border controls to prevent secondary movements of migrants.
“A temporary suspension of asylum applications was introduced in Finland in May. “This is a response to the hybrid war declared against the entire Union (including, above all, Poland) by the regimes in Moscow and Minsk, which involves the organization of trafficking massive number of human beings across our borders,” Tusk said on the social network.
The instrumentalization of migration was one of the last issues that EU governments slipped into the migration pact. However, with the aim of allowing border controls in certain situations in which it is interpreted that third countries are using migrants to destabilize EU countries. The idea of Tusk goes even further.
Tusk has already threatened to violate the new rules, which will have to be implemented in the summer of 2026. Spain, France and Germany, however, have demanded to step on the accelerator and that the agreement can enter into force. force sooner than expected. However, the migration issue is one of the most controversial within the EU and some capitals already want to withdraw from the agreement. This has been requested by the Netherlands and Hungary, although the European Commission has already rejected this option.
The leader of the Civic Platform therefore follows in the wake of the ultranationalists of Law and Justice (PiS), who warned the government that they would not respect the agreement due to the rejection of the distribution of refugee quotas in crisis situations like that of 2015. “No government in Europe has done so badly, from the point of view of the security of its citizens, but also of the borders of the EU, as the PiS in Poland. And he sprinkled it with a sauce of nationalism and contempt for other peoples,” Tusk said this weekend, according to the EFE agency.
Last week, PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo visited the country and praised “the Poland of recent years”, which had an ultra-sanctioned government within the EU. “It’s a success story,” Feijóo said of a country that has been repeatedly warned from Brussels, notably for violating judicial independence or for establishing the primacy of national law over national law. European.
With her position on migration, Tusk also complicates the task of her European colleagues, notably the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, under whose mandate the migration pact was approved, of which she is an ardent defender. The hardening of the position of a majority of member states threatens to make the agreement stillborn and Tusk, which was received with a red carpet in the EU after years of authoritarian drift in Warsaw, even threatens to ‘ignore.
