The European Commission and Germany have called on Poland to fully investigate the case regarding possible visa fraud. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson sent a letter to Polish authorities demanding “clarifications” while also issuing an ultimatum to Warsaw.
The answers must be provided by October 3, as a Commission spokeswoman confirmed in Brussels on Wednesday. The European Commission called the allegations of fraud and corruption “very worrying”. There is fear of a violation of EU law. The government in Warsaw dismissed the accusations as “absurd”.
“Don’t believe this nonsense, just campaign noise”
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski has firmly rejected the accusations. “The German press pounced on the opposition’s completely absurd portrayal of the scale of the incidents,” he told radio station Zet. He called on his German counterpart Nancy Faeser to “not believe the nonsense”. It’s just election campaign noise. The Polish government speaks of a much lower level of illegal visa issuance. Poland’s opposition accused the government, which promoted anti-migrant sentiment during the election campaign, of bringing “hundreds of thousands of migrants” to Poland.
According to Polish media reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw is at the center of the scandal. As a result, a deputy minister has now been suspended. He is said to have set up an illegal network to smuggle migrants from Asia and Africa through Polish consulates. External companies are said to have been paid for the smuggling.
Source: Krone
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