The Rome-Warsaw-Budapest axis could not hold out this time: At the end of long negotiations, the Italian government gave the green light to the new agreement, which should reorganize Europe’s rules regarding immigrants. A contrasting position to the position of the Polish ruler, Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Giorgia Meloni’s main ally in Europe. “Poland will not allow human smugglers to dictate conditions to the EU. We are in favor of closing the borders,” said Warsaw prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The core of the dispute is the so-called “obligation of solidarity” between Member States: In the event of an immigration emergency in one or more EU countries, each State will be assigned an asylum quota to deal with. Countries have two paths ahead of them: either accepting immigrants or paying 20,000 euros for each asylum seeker. Warsaw and Budapest do not like this requirement.
“Forced relocation does not solve the immigration problem, but violates the sovereignty of member states. Poland will not pay for the mistakes of other countries’ immigration policies,” Morawiecki wrote on Twitter. Orban agrees: “Brussels is abusing its power. They want to force immigrants to settle in Hungary. This is unacceptable, they want to forcibly turn Hungary into a country of immigrants.” from its spokesperson, Zoltan Kovacs.
Words that are very different from those of Prime Minister Meloni: “We are taking many steps forward,” he said at a forum in Puglia on immigrants, underscoring the newly discovered understanding with Germany.
Source: Today IT
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