Poland Calls on Europe to Wake Up

We will not allow any blackmail from the European Union. We will not participate in the madness of the Brussels elite -Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło said on Wednesday in the Polish Sejm during a discussion on defense and security issues.

"We have the courage to ask a question to the political elite in Europe: where are you going? Where are you heading to, Europe? Wake up from your lethargic sleep, otherwise you'll be mourning your children every day!" she said, pointing to mass immigration and the recent terrorist acts in European cities, citing in particular the incident in Manchester, where two Polish citizens were killed by a Salman Abedi bomb.

After the European Commission (see page 3) and the European Parliament threatened Poland, Hungary and Austria with sanctions if they continue to reject quotas for refugees, Poland "made it clear that it will not give up." According to the leader of the Conservative Party of Poland "Law and Justice", which has been heading the country since October 2015, the reception of refugees would have become a social catastrophe and would have "radically reduced the level of security" in Poland.

Szydło also pointed to the risk to national security, which is connected with the arrival of nations that are fundamentally different in terms of culture. The Prime Minister also defended her government's policy of assisting "real refugees" from Syria and neighboring countries, whereas the previous government, headed by Eva Kopach, on the contrary, greatly reduced this assistance, boasting that she agreed to the "generous reception of illegal immigrants" which was imposed by the EU and especially by Germany, which "opened wide" the doors to them in 2015.

"Among those coming from the Middle East are many criminals who should be in prison instead of walking around Europe, receiving social benefits," said Leszek Miller, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Poland, going on to call for the closure of radical mosques, expulsion of all radical imams and foreigners suspected of links with terrorist organizations, and elimination of all jihadist cells on the continent.

Dimitri Dolaberidze