Tusk announced his intention to temporarily suspend the right to asylum

Poland is going to temporarily suspend granting asylum to migrants, which is one of the elements of the country's new migration strategy. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this on Saturday, 12 October, at the Civic Platform party congress in Warsaw, TVP Info reports.

He stressed that he has already developed a strategy and will seek recognition of such a decision in Europe.

We know very well how this right to asylum is often used against the essence of the right to asylum," Tusk added.

He added that Poles prefer to see those who are ready to work, pay taxes and integrate into society.

Warsaw wants to fully restore control over the newcomers, to understand why a person has arrived and how useful he or she can be," he explained.

According to the Polish Prime Minister, his country will further accept only those migrants who want to integrate, i.e. intend to stay permanently or for a long time, get acquainted and respect Polish customs.

Tusk also emphasised that he would oppose the idea of re-locating migrants from other European countries to Poland.

We will not introduce any European ideas if we know that they threaten our security," he said.

It should be noted that the European Commission earlier proposed a new agreement on granting asylum to migrants based on a quota system. It implies the distribution of migrants across EU countries according to the principle of "solidarity" so that those who arrived on the European continent would not settle in several countries, thus increasing the burden on all spheres of the country.