Poland’s Prime Minister Says The Country Will Not Accept The EU Quota Of 4,500 Refugees

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Poland’s new Prime Minister has announced that her country will not accept 4,500 refugees as part of an EU quota.

Beata Szydlo said her government are not prepared to accept the quota, saying the massacres in the Paris had ‘changed the situation.’

Hundreds of thousands of people have reached Europe as Syrian refugees in recent months, including at least one using a passport found at the scene of one of the Paris attacks.

Poland’s previous centre-right pro-EU government backed the deal to take in 4,500 refugees in September.

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But the new government, formed earlier this month by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, appears to have reversed the Polish position.

Mrs Szydlo said: ‘After Paris, the situation has changed.

‘We will be proposing to sit down at a table and think over, whether the solutions which have been proposed are good.

‘In our view, we are not prepared to accept those quotas of refugees.’

The new Prime Minister’s comments break ranks with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia who support the deal to share 120,000 refugees across the 28-nation bloc.

Any revision to the deal would likely deepen the divisions within the EU over how to handle the more than 800,000 migrants who have entered the bloc this year, mostly fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

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