Refugees in Poland pay the price for Paris attack

Szymanski, who is to take the European affairs portfolio in conservative Prime Minister-designate Beata Szydlo's new government, said yesterday's attacks in Paris were "directly" connected both to the migrant crisis as well as French involvement in air strikes on Islamic State positions.

Poland has signalled it will retreat on an EU-wide quota commitment to relocate migrants across the continent, following Friday night's attacks in Paris, which killed at least 127 people. Security concerns are high among the reasons touted by Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which don't want to accept predominantly Muslim refugees on their soil.

"The decisions by the EU Council that were criticized by us over the resettlement of refugees and migrants in all European Union states are of a binding nature".

"In the face of the tragic acts in Paris, we do not see the political possibilities to implement [this]", he wrote. "Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy", Szymanski insisted on the site.

Her eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party won the October 25 election on a platform that included refusing migrants entry into Poland. The nine European Union member countries in central and eastern Europe were scheduled to take only 15,000 of the first batch of refugees, half the number France and Germany are scheduled to absorb between them. In fact, IS claimed responsibility for the attacks, threatening more to come.

"Germany, too, remains firmly as ever in the firing line of global terrorism", he insisted.