So today I've found out from Polish news that there are 11 refugee centres in Poland.
Currently there are 1500 refugees at those centres, mainly Ukrainians.
There is still room for 500 people.
Poland isn't exactly a big refugee/immigration destination, so there you go...
Of course, some places could be adapted at schools etc., but where will they locate those 11 000 people, if it comes to this - I'm not sure...
Source: I've watched "Open Source" on BBC.
"Outside Source", sorry lol
@Paulina: witam! since you asked me the other day: France has already taken in over 11,000 since 2011 and yet another 24,000+ to come (including 1,000 from Germany within 3 days) so please have the decency not to compare with Poland's ... 50/60 Christian families..... I notice that Spain, very comparable to Poland in population and in economy shall take in around 40-50% more than Poland.
I'm not sure what I asked you and I wasn't comparing anything you mention.
Actually, that's my point - France and Spain
aren't comparable to Poland - there are richer countries. They can afford to take many refugees and they were rich and developed enough to take economic migrants, just like other Western countries.
Btw, France and the rest of the West has its refugees and Poland has her own refugees - Ukrainians. There are something like 50-60 000 Ukrainians who were issued special visas by Poland since the Ukraine crisis began so they could work and live here.
Québec to take in 3,650 refugees by December 2015! Québec does not belong to EU and therefore is not forced to.... Québec makes much more efforts than ... Poland ;)
And more than the US, the main "culprit" which has taken less than 2000 refugees from Syria for... 4 years...
So, InPolska, is the US... a selfish country?
Instead of spending EU money to build airports without planes (ex. Radom and soon others), Poland could spend money to help refugees.
Just like other countries in the EU with those "ghost airports". This is the bad side of this EU funding you praise so much - in quite a few cases funds are given for useless infrastructure while they could be used for something... useful. But I guess such logic isn't compatible with mighty brains at Brussels...
There's one advantage to this waste of money - now those "ghost airports" across the EU could be used for housing the refugees... lol
The world sees what countries are generous and what countries are selfish.
The world have seen other things too - what the West was doing for all those years in that region.
Don't forget that the world doesn't comprise only from the West. Whenever Poles (including me) during discussions with Russians were saying that "the world condemns this or that" etc. Russians were laughing and were saying "You mean the West does, not the world".
People in the West are very West-centric. You think the world revolves around you, but it doesn't...
I suspect the world doesn't give a sh1t about what Poland is doing, whether it's "generous" or "selfish", I suspect even most of the refugees don't give a sh1it about it either, because they don't want to go to Poland - they want to go to Western countries.
@Nothanks: what about the 116,000+ Polish refugees taken in by ... Iran during WWII?
According to that guy from Polish-Russian blog I quoted before:
"Iran 'took in" Polish refugees because it was occupied by Great Britain. Those were the families of Polish soldiers who fought for Britain, so the English truly have shown us pity... :D"
(I'm just quoting ;))
So, the families stayed in the refugee camps and Polish men, after they recovered after their "stay" in the Soviet labour camps (gulags) went on to fight alongside the British against the Nazis.
One could say that they paid off their "debt" with blood...
Btw, InPolska, it's not like the Poles stayed in those camps in Iran (in tents) forever.
Iran didn't take in single Polish refugee. It was Soviet Union that resettled them there while occupying northern Iran. Iranian officials were strongly against it. STOP LYING!
Resettled? That must be some kind of euphemism on your part... They walked all the way to Iran from gulags, after they were "kindly" freed...
I don't know about Iranian officials but according to this link Iranian people were "noble, incredibly open and kind" to Polish refugees as stated by one of them:
udskior.gov.pl/70,rocznica,przyjecia,ponad,116,tys,polskich,uchodzcow,przez,Iran,275.html
They'll be kept and supervized by authorities for a certain period of time.
What will be that "certain period of time"?
Don't worry, no refugee would want to stay in Poland any longer than required!
So how long is it required for those "quota refugees" to stay in Poland? Would they be able to travel freely across the EU after that "required time" and live and work in any EU state?
there were 20 million Polish refugees taken in by the West. When the West has taken in 20 million Poles
No, he said that there are 20 million of people of Polish origin living outside of Poland - meaning - in the world, not only in the West lol
Again, West-centric thinking... :)
Poland can take in a few thousands.
And it most probably will, so take a chill pill.
If you don't like it, you just talk to Junker. Whining in PF won't help
Your whining on PF won't help either but you seem to be taking great pleasure in it... :)
@G: and what about the Poles happy to work for western companies? What about the millions of Polish economic emigrants not only to UK but elsewhere in EU?
They are economic emigrants and not refugees. They are working for their living (most of them). Just like a couple of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are working in Poland for their living.
So the EU has come up with a master plan, 160,000 to be spread to the 4 corners of the EU, where are we going to put the other millions ????
That's what I'm wondering about...
The consensus in Poland and across the EU seems to be that refugees in fear of their lives must be helped, but economic migrants should be sent back where they came from.
The problem is how to separate the grain from the chaff? HOW TO SCREEN THEM? Many have no documents and all claim to be refugees. All are bent on reaching much-longed-for Germany and are reluctant to be processed in other countries. Do host countries have an adquate screening apparatus - people speaking their language and aware of the political situation in each country?
And that's another thing I'm wondering about...
Jewish activist trying to guilt trip Poland into taking more refugees. Meanwhile Israel has taken in NO-ONE
I read Haaretz from time to time and it seems Israel is probably not the best place to send asylum seekers...
haaretz.com/opinion/1.663453
Sorry - no. That's not true. According to Dziennik (the German owned Polish newspaper) 3000 Ukranians from Donbass appled for asylum in Poland.
3 were granted asylum.
Link?
Paulina has somebody asked those people whether or not they want to go to Poland? I gather they want to go mainly to Germany, Britain and Scandinavia. That could be a problem.
That's the problem. The Western leaders and Westerners on this forum don't seem to care about this issue...
Will the refugees agree to be registered in Poland? Or will they be registered elsewhere and sent to Poland? Will they have to stay in Poland?
Will they agree to all of this or will we witness scenes like in Hungary or riots like on Lesbos in Greece?
The recent poll in which 80% of Poles say they don't want the invaders in Poland confirms this.
According to the most recent poll I've seen 51% of Poles want Poland to take in refugees.