Poland: EU's outside borders must be secured
Warsaw said that country can handle over 2,000 refugees
14 September, 15:25(ANSA-AP) - ROMA - Poland's prime minister says the European Union's outside borders must be strictly controlled in the face of a huge surge of immigrants. Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz also said Monday that Poland would restore its own border controls if it saw any outside threats. She did not elaborate.
The EU's interior ministers are discussing how to share 160,000 asylum seekers among the bloc's 28 nations at a meeting Monday in Brussels. Kopacz said Poland will not agree to the refugee quota - some 12,000 people - that the EU wants it to accept. She says "we will accept the number of refugees that we can afford, not one more, not one less." Poland says it can handle over 2,000 refugees. (ANSA-AP).