Poland Seeks Referendum on EU Migrant Relocation Plans
Migrant families from Syria and Iraq at the Polish - Belarus border in eastern Poland.
Photographer: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images
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Poland’s ruling party announced plans to hold a referendum on the European Union’s migrant relocation plan as the country nears a tightly contested general election in about four months.
Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski said the bloc’s latest proposals, which envisage financial costs for countries that decline to let in asylum seekers, effectively “discriminate” Poland after it accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing from Russia’s invasion last year.