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Does the EU have a migration policy?
The EU has adopted various sets of rules and frameworks to manage legal migration flows for highly-skilled workers, students and researchers, seasonal workers, and people seeking family reunification. In respect of other migration flows, the EU has common rules for processing asylum requests.
Is Poland homogeneous?
Ethnically, Poland is a very homogeneous country, with 96.7\% of population being Polish.
How many refugees did Poland get in 2020?
2,811.00
Poland refugee statistics for 2020 was 2,811.00, a 77.79\% decline from 2019. Poland refugee statistics for 2019 was 12,658.00, a 1.3\% increase from 2018.
What is the European migration pact?
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum is a policy document that sets out the EU’s agenda on migration for the years to come and a package of legislative proposals and recommendations.
What is happening with the EU’s refugee quotas?
The European commission is abandoning the idea of mandatory refugee quotas, as it revives an attempt to change Europe’s asylum and migration rules after more than four years of deadlock.
How did Warsaw respond to the EU migration crisis?
At the September EU summit on the migration crisis, Warsaw went against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia and voted to accept 4,500-5,000 additional migrants, meaning a total of around 7,000 next year. Law and Justice took a very different position.
Will Poland try to unpick the September deal?
In the wake of the Paris atrocities, new European minister Konrad Szymański suggested that Poland might try and unpick the September deal. He argued that the attacks showed that the EU’s response to the migrant crisis was flawed and his country’s participation in the relocation scheme was now untenable.
When will the EU’s plan for Migration Reform be passed?
Germany, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said it aimed to reach agreement on the principles by the end of the year, while the commission wants the legislation wrapped up by June 2021. German interior minister Horst Seehofer described the plans as a “good basis for discussion” with member states.