On Wednesday 12 November, the European Commission will present a decision in the European Parliament on the relocation of migrants, as reflected in the adopted agenda for Europe. It is expected to be beneficial for Poland, as already announced on Monday by RMF FM.
Poland is to avoid the alleged migration pact
The radio station recalls that the point is that our country is in a group of countries "under migration pressure" due to the admission of millions of refugees from Ukraine and the hybrid actions of Belarus.
This means exempting Poland from the work to relocate migrants and the financial burden resulting from the EU migration pact.
As the Euronews portal reported in October, the Pact provides for a mechanics for the yearly relocation of at least 30,000 migrants. Countries that choose not to accept or consider asylum applications will be required to pay a fee of EUR 20 000 for any unexamined request or another solidarity action.
Member States have 3 possibilities to fulfil their responsibilities: through the relocation of migrants, financial contribution or operational support, e.g. equipment, personnel or logistics, Euronews described.
At the same time, the Pact provides that countries under peculiar migratory pressure, for example due to a large influx of refugees, may be granted partial or complete relief from solidarity obligations. specified a case is Poland.
Aversion to Ukrainians grows in Poland
At the same time, let us stress that the influx of war refugees from Ukraine caused the Poles to partially radicalise, at least on the Internet. As we wrote, in October the presence of Ukrainian citizens in our country became 1 of the most polarizing topics in the Polish digital space.
The analysis of the Res Futura Foundation covered a full of 229 1000 references (Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram), which generated a scope of 245 million hits. The survey showed an intensification of debates in which Ukrainians are increasingly presented as a origin of interior tension alternatively than victims of war.
Experts say that critical sentiment prevailed in the online debate. Critical comments against Ukrainians accounted for 66% of the total, while support votes reached 21%.
The language utilized in the statements indicates normalisation of the exclusion discourse. On the rating scale (where 10 is the language of fascist propaganda, analogous to the communicative historically applied to Jews), the position of the language towards the Ukrainians was 7.1/10, indicating the cultural dominance of the resentition and communicative of danger – according to the survey of Res Futura. Here's more about it.
