Poland could be open to compromise over British demands to limit the rights of European Union migrants, the country’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told Reuters.
Poland Ready to Bargain With UK Over Migrant Ban: What Does it Want Back?
That was just a couple of years ago. It was quite a story at the time. Plus NATO uses poland all the time and they are on the front line and basically demeaned b y the British. So, this was an understandable bargaining chip for them to use.
Poland Ready to Bargain With UK Over Migrant Ban: What Does it Want Back?
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160104/1032651480/poland-britain-migrants-bargain.html
By Admin, Sputnik News, January 4, 2016
Poland says it is ready to soften its position on Cameron’s proposal to ban EU migrants from claiming in-work benefits during their first four years in the country, but it certainly wants something in return: London now promises it will help to bolster NATO’s presence in Poland to compensate for it feeling like “a second-class NATO member-state”.
UK Prime Minister’s call for a four-year delay before EU migrants can claim certain UK welfare benefits is one of his key demands in renegotiations of Britain’s membership of the EU.
The proposal is due to be discussed by EU heads of state at a summit in February.
Cameron left Warsaw empty-handed last month after a visit to discuss his push, with Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo saying further talks were needed, Reuters reminds.
Waszczykowski says Warsaw opposed any cuts in benefits in Britain that singled out potential recipients based on their origin.
Now, the country’s foreign minister says Poland wants to offset the impact of any benefit cuts for its citizens living in Britain by planning to offer a monthly cash payment to families with children, in the hope Polish workers will stay in Poland instead of emigrating.
“We’re aware that the British welfare system is very elaborate and that it may not be able to bear it. We are therefore addressing this by increasing our benefits, and we also want to raise salaries in Poland,” he said.
The politician admits that in return, “Britain could offer something to Poland in terms of international security.”
“It would be very difficult for us to accept any discrimination,” Waszczykowski reiterated. “Unless Britain helped us really effectively with regard to the Polish defense ambitions at the summit in Warsaw.”
In 2014, Poland’s then foreign minister said he wanted the alliance to station two NATO heavy brigades — typically between 3,000 and 5,000 troops — on Polish soil in response to what he described as “Russia’s intervention in Ukraine”.
The alliance is reluctant to permanently station troops in central Europe, with some states wary of violating a 1997 NATO-Russia agreement on the size of forces the alliance can have in former Warsaw Pact countries, of which Poland is one.
“Britain could support our expectations related to an allied military presence on Polish territory,” Waszczykowski said.
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Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2016/01/poland-ready-to-bargain-with-uk-over.html
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