Paris attacks intensify migrant debate in the EU

Poland’s incoming European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymanski said Saturday that Warsaw no longer considered an EU plan to redistribute refugees across Europe as a “political possibility” in light of the Paris attacks.

“Do not confuse the perpetrators of criminal acts in Paris with the asylum seekers, with migrants who have good reason to knock on our doors; and do not confuse those who committed these atrocities with those who flee the philosophy and mentality that inspire acts that unfortunately we have seen in Paris”. “Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy”, the minister added.

A statement issued after the meeting says the Security Council “emphasizes that a fence would not be aimed at closing the border, but channeling and limiting the flow of the migrants”. The country had already accepted 2,000.

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker warned against a “base reactions” to Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris, insisting that European Union asylum policy should not be changed.

Hours after Friday’s attacks, investigators discovered two of the terrorists involved in the attack may have entered Europe posing as refugees.

The Paris terror attacks have prompted growing security concerns, which ultimately challenge the continuity of the Schengen Agreement, USA intelligence company Strategic Forecasting, Inc. It is part of the risk of welcoming strangers, just as we all take calculated risks when we allow people we don’t know well into our homes. But right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban played the Schengen card to defend the move, and his administration even claimed an “identified terrorist” was among those arrested as the border crossing descended into chaos that week.

“Not every refugee is an Islamic State terrorist”.

Recent busts of alleged terrorist cells have added more fuel to that fire. Greek authorities say 1,244 refugees and economic migrants have been rescued from frail craft in danger over the past three days in the Aegean Sea, as thousands continue to arrive on the Greek islands. The interior ministry in Munich confirmed the report. But the decision to close the borders-which was not done in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January-still felt like another blow to architecture of the Schengen zone, which was already starting to crack well before the latest attacks in Paris.

“It was not the moderate Syrian opposition that carried out the attacks in Paris”. Arab-American leaders and refugee advocatescriticized the announcements as alarmist. British officials are seeking new powers in Parliament to expand surveillance operations to “detect and disrupt” what is said to be an unprecedented number of plots.

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas running well behind front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, also took aim at Obama’s resettlement plans. “We need to have a better process”, Huckabee said on CNN. Quite the opposite, after a century that saw two world wars fought on European soil, the E.U. showed how peace could be achieved not by building walls but destroying them.

Ahead of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton, the front-runner, tweeted her condolences to the victims.