Poland says will not accept refugees after Paris attacks

Poland can not accept migrants under European Union (EU) quotas after Friday's attacks in Paris, Poland's European affairs minister designate Konrad Szymanski said on Saturday.

The prime minister will discuss the crisis and other issues with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council president Donald Tusk on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the Turkish resort city of Antalya.

Officials in Greece say the passport's owner entered the country on October 3 through Leros, one of the eastern Aegean islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty have been using as a gateway into the European Union. It was one of the same neighbourhoods raided by Belgian anti-terror police in January during operations that led to the shooting of two suspects associated with the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

But "after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them", he said. The fact that one of the Paris attackers was carrying a Syrian passport was seized upon by those opposed to accepting asylum seekers. In Germany, even allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was already facing internal dissent after inviting 800,000 into the country, said the Paris attack should persuade her to change her policy.

"We have been saying that there are enormous security risks linked to migration". German officials have said that any Syrian who reaches its borders would be automatically granted asylum, and encouraged other countries along the way to let them through without excessive interference. "That's not American, that's not who we are".

That same month, in an interview with Portuguese Catholic broadcaster Radio Renascença, Pope Francis said it was not far-fetched to suggest the Islamic State could launch attacks inside Europe.

France is reeling from a series of deadly attacks in Paris that left at least 127 people dead and scores more injured.

But that same survey, which was conducted before the summer's tide of refugees, also found a spike in public fears over security. "We will continue the painstaking and persistent effort to ensure the security of our country and Europe under hard circumstances, insisting on complete identification of those arriving".

"The Paris attacks will seriously challenge the continuity of the Schengen Agreement, which eliminated border controls in Europe".

Across Europe, mainstream opponents to European Union plans to resettle Syrians also used the attacks to push back against allowing refugees into their countries.

French President François Hollande appeared to echo those views on Monday.

In Croatia, which has become the main Balkan country of transit for migrants, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic reminded that "closing (borders) and barbed wire does not prevent these kind of tragedies". "We can not allow any illegal and uncontrolled immigration".

Sigmar Gabriel says those seeking refuge in Europe shouldn't be made to suffer just because "they come from those regions where terror is being exported to us and to the world".

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mrs May said: "We've been at that threat level for over a year now and of course we operate at that threat level and since the attacks [in Paris] that took place on Friday and there's been an increase in peace presence on the streets and at a few events".