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7 November 2024
Poland’s nationalist government has railed against EU asylum policy and migration from “culturally alien” countries but is, in fact, allowing thousands of Asian migrants in to keep the growing economy on track.
Poland and Hungary were the only two countries in the EU Council that voted against the reform of the Union’s asylum regulations on 8 June. At first glance, the Polish veto is not surprising and fully consistent with the anti-migration rhetoric of the Law and Justice (PiS) government.
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Shortly after the new asylum pact got approved by a majority at the Council, the government launched a propaganda campaign blaming Brussels for imposing “absurd solutions” on member states and forcing Poland to bear the burden of “failed migration policies of other countries.”