The Polish government will adopt a special resolution on the EU migration plan on Tuesday 19 September, in which it is expected to express its opposition to illegal migration. “We have to do this because the head of the European Commission has announced another fatal plan for Europe after her visit to Lampedusa”, announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a Law and Justice (PiS) spot.

A spot featuring Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has been published on the Law and Justice (PiS) profile on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter).

“In southern Europe, we are facing another huge wave of illegal immigrants. We need a European plan to combat the problem, symbolised today by Italy’s Lampedusa. This solution is not the relocation of illegal migrants. That is why our government will today adopt a resolution on an EU plan addressing migration”, says the announcement of the spot.

Prime Minister Morawiecki promises that the Law and Justice government will adopt a special resolution opposing illegal migration.

“Why do we need to do this? Because the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after her visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa, announced yet another disastrous plan for Europe. European bureaucrats have the safety of our continent’s citizens for nothing, and therefore also the safety of Polish families, women and children”, says the Prime Minister in the video.

Morawiecki adds that there are no illegal immigrants in Tarnobrzeg, where the spot was recorded, but “there are also none in Krakow, Warsaw, Sopot, Katowice or Wrocław; there are no terror districts anywhere in Poland”, he stated.

Following her visit to Lampedusa, the European Commission chief announced that a 10-point action plan would be prepared to support Italy. It was published on the European Commission’s website and envisages supporting the transfer of people from Lampedusa, including to other Member States, using the voluntary solidarity mechanism, with a special focus on unaccompanied minors and women, increasing the support provided to Italy by the European Union Agency for Asylum and Frontex, stepping up surveillance of borders at sea and from the air, and stepping up awareness and communication campaigns to discourage people from crossing the Mediterranean.

Adrian Andrzejewski