Poland won't accept refugees after Paris attacks: incoming minister

"We'll accept (refugees only) if we have security guarantees".

"The attacks mean the necessity of an even deeper revision of the European policy towards the migrant crisis", the Jerusalem Post quoted Poland's European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymanski as saying during a briefing on Saturday.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris in which at least 127 people were killed. "This is a key condition, and today a question mark has been put next to it all around Europe", added the incoming minister, without specifying what he meant by security guarantees.

The fresh criticism of the plan emerged after officials in Greece said a Syrian passport found at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October.

Soeder, whose party has been critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy on migrants, added that, "Paris changed everything" and that, "This is no time for uncontrolled immigration".

In Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia - all part of the Cold War-era communist empire in Moscow's orbit - the burdens imposed on security and humanitarian relief agencies by the flow of hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees making their way north have created new social divisions and discord. "We can help them form an army", said the minister, who takes office today.

Just a few months ago, newspapers were full of reports about refugees being warmly received at German train stations, according to Joachim Trebbe, a communications researcher at Berlin's Free University. But Juncker said that "those who organised, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite".

Alabama and MI this weekend joined the ranks of Europe's skittish politicians and said their states would attempt to block Syrian refugees in any USA relocation program.

The Netherlands' Foreign Affairs Minister Bert Koenders also said that closing borders to the refugees fleeing violence in African and Middle Eastern countries would not be helpful. He said Juncker's reaction in this regard was insufficient.

Poland's Law & Justice party takes power this week after winning last month's general election "on a campaign that tapped into concerns among the country's conservative Catholic base that too many Muslims are arriving in Europe", Bloomberg writes.

The outgoing liberal government had declared readiness to take in more migrants than the 9,287 assigned to it under European Union proposals without saying how far it would go beyond that figure.

Under the European Union quota deal, Poland agreed to take in 4,500 refugees. Such a tactic would confirm a risk long cited by security experts - that among the multitudes crossing the Mediterranean this year, there could be a few who are seeking neither safety nor a better life, but rather to inflict harm.