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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Luxembourg

Poland criticises EU’s ‘unacceptable’ proposed charge for refusing migrants

People sitting in a large room filled with tents, blankets and wooden pallets
People seeking to enter Poland via Belarus, at a logistics centre on the border in 2021. Photograph: Oksana Manchuk/AP

Poland has entered crunch talks aimed at making radical changes to the EU’s migration and asylum laws with the claim that the proposals could result in a “step back” to 2015, when more than a million people flowed into the bloc.

The Polish deputy state secretary of the interior, Bartosz Grodecki, opened the summit of home affairs ministers in Luxembourg by declaring that Warsaw would refuse to pay proposed “fines” for not taking people.

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