The Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted by the European Union, aims to establish a common strategy for managing migration and asylum among associate States, according to its creators and coders. Its main nonsubjective is to introduce a compulsory solidarity mechanism, which is to spread work for managing migration between all EU countries.
This mechanics involves the relocation of at least 30 000 migrants each year. Countries that do not decide to examine their asylum applications will be required to contribute EUR 20 000 in financial support for any unexamined request or alternate solidarity measures, specified as the posting of staff.
Poland, alongside Slovakia and Hungary, opposed the adoption of these provisions. Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a gathering with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in February in Gdańsk stated that “Poland will not implement the migration pact in a way that would origin additional amounts of migrants in Poland”. Home Minister Tomasz Siemoniak confirmed that “the implementation of legislative changes is impossible” and that Poland's position on this substance remains unchanged. The question is, is this an authentic and honest message or pre-election calculation?
However, the European Commission recalls that the migration pact is legally binding on all associate States and will enter into force in mid-2026. The EC spokesperson Markus Lammert stressed that EU law is applicable to all associate States at the time of its entry into force. He besides pointed out that the Pact takes into account the circumstantial migration situation of each country and provides “the essential flexibility to meet their needs”. In case of delays in the implementation of the rules or their questioning, the European Commission may take “adequate action”, which in practice means the initiation of an infringement procedure against the associate State concerned.
Currently Poland has not yet presented its plan for implementing the migration pact in Brussels. The European Commission is working with associate States to implement the regulation in order to avoid an infringement procedure. EC spokeswoman Paul Pinho, however, pointed out that since the pact had not yet entered into force, it was besides early to talk about initiating any infringement procedures.
The migration pact aims to spread work for managing migration within the Union between all associate States. EU ministers approved the government last May, despite the opposition of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The provisions contain the alleged mandatory solidarity mechanism, which involves deploying at least 30,000 migrants all year. Countries that do not want to process their asylum applications (which may but request not end with their acceptance) will gotta pay EUR 20 000 for any pending request or supply alleged alternate solidarity measures, specified as the posting of staff. Regulations besides presume that account should be taken of the countries under migration pressure, so that the little burdened countries aid the more burdened.
