Polish Lawmakers Push Back After Prime Minister Suspends Right to Asylum

Published on October 15, 2024

Members of Poland’s ruling coalition expressed concerns over Donald Tusk’s plans to suspend the right to asylum on Monday after the Polish prime minister announced them over the weekend. On Saturday, at a congress organized by his Civic Coalition (KO), a defiant Tusk promised to reject any EU immigration policies he believes will undermine Warsaw’s security and said the right to asylum would be temporarily suspended. Now, some in his coalition have said they believe those measures may breach the country’s constitution as well as international law. Tusk’s statements came just days after he and the prime minister of the Czech Republic said that the EU must do more to tackle illegal migration and condemned the practice of renewing border checks between the 27 member states....

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