Poland has announced it will no longer take refugees through an EU programme

Poland has announced it will no longer take refugees via an EU programme, in a deeply controversial statement which linked the crisis to the killings in Paris.

“The European Council’s decisions, which we criticised, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law,” European affairs minister Konrad Szymanski wrote on right-leaning website wPolityce.pl.

“After the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them,” he said.

Under the EU relocation plan, 160,000 refugees registered in frontline states Greece and Italy were to be relocated around the 28-member bloc, but there has been fierce resistance from several eastern European countries.

                  FRANCE 24