The Polish president Andrea Duda lashed out at the European Union this morning over its immigration policy. “The European Union provides more support to countries outside the coalition, like Turkey, to help them cope with immigration, than it gives to its own members,” said the president of Poland.

“I don’t understand why the European Commission and European institutions spent billions of euros to help Turkey when it took in a million Syrian immigrants, but they were unwilling to help Poland, which received millions of refugees from Ukraine”, said the Polish president speaking to the private radio station Radio Zet.

The EU’s largest eastern member country opposes a European deal designed to share responsibility for caring for migrants and refugees and says the EU has done “too little” to help it cope with the influx. The EU rejects these criticisms.

Warsaw plans to hold a referendum on whether to accept the agreement.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday he would present a “secure borders” plan to Brussels that would see reform of the Frontex border agency and more funds for countries securing the EU’s external borders.

The Polish government is reacting to the EU’s migration deal by saying it will either be forced to take in more migrants on top of the 1.5-2 million refugees it estimates it has taken in from Ukraine, or to pay other countries which will accept them.

European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told private Polish broadcaster TVN24 on Thursday that countries such as Poland, which are facing migration pressures, will not be forced to take in additional migrants under the deal, and will not have to make payments to other countries. Countries.