- Title: POLAND-MIGRANT/QUOTAS Poland's president says opposes EU migrant quotas
- Date: 8th September 2015
- Summary: KRYNICA, POLAND (SEPTEMBER 8, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF KRYNICA ECONOMIC FORUM SIGN READING (English): "ECONOMIC FORUM" FLAGS POLISH PRESIDENT, ANDRZEJ DUDA, WALKING VARIOUS OF PRESIDENTS SEATED FOR INAUGURATION PANEL (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) ANDRZEJ DUDA, PRESIDENT OF POLAND, SAYING ON EU MIGRANT QUOTAS: "I do not agree with such a Europe, where economic dominance or superior population is the reason that other countries, in a way, will have arbitrarily specific solutions imposed on them without taking into account their special characteristics, without taking into account their interests, in particular their national interests. Because then there is no partnership. That's when I formed divisions. And then the principle of "divide and rule" begins to rule, which is not a principle of the [European] community." VARIOUS OF LISTENERS CROATIAN PRESIDENT, KOLINDA GRABAR-KITARIVIC, SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) CROATIAN PRESIDENT, KOLINDA GRABAR-KITARIVIC, SAYING: "These poor people whom we are seeing today on the borders at European Union or in the European Union are fleeing war, instability, persecution. But this just is a small fragment of the bigger issue, of the bigger picture. The UNHCR says that there are about 60 million people who are displaced and refugees around the world. So while we are and have to be addressing the effects, which is taking immediate care of more than 200,000 people already in the European Union and in which we have expressed a certain level of solidarity to resolve the imminent crisis." PRESIDENTS AT PANEL PRESIDENT OF MACEDONIA, GJORGE IVANOV, SPEAKING ON STAGE VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF KRYNICA ECONOMIC FORUM
- Embargoed: 23rd September 2015 13:00
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- Location: Poland
- Country: Poland
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday (September 8) that he was against migrant quotas imposed on the European Union's member states.
"I do not agree with such a Europe, where economic dominance or superior population is the reason that other countries, in a way, will have arbitrarily specific solutions imposed on them without taking into account their special characteristics, without taking into account their interests, in particular their national interests. Because then there is no partnership. That's when I formed divisions. And then the principle of "divide and rule" begins to rule, which is not a principle of the [European] community," Duda said at the Krynica Economic Forum.
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarivic added that the scenes of crowds of migrants at the borders of the EU were just "a small fragment of the bigger issue", saying that they had "expressed a certain level of solidarity to resolve the imminent crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Europe needed to implement a joint system for dealing with asylum seekers and agree to binding quotas on how to distribute refugees across the continent. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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