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Poland has become one of the most outspoken defenders of national control over immigration within the European Union. Polish Member of the European Parliament Dominik Tarczyński recently walked through a Polish city at night, contrasting its peaceful streets with the scenes of destruction coming out of France. “Look how safe we are. Churches are safe. Because we did not let them in. Zero means zero. ‘Be like Poland’ means be brave.” His message was aimed directly at Brussels, which has spent years attempting to impose a common migration system upon countries that do not necessarily agree on whom they should admit. Poland has insisted that decisions involving its borders, national security, and the composition of its population cannot simply be handed over to European institutions.
The Polish people have good reason to understand the importance of sovereignty. Their country was partitioned by foreign powers in the eighteenth century, disappeared from the map of Europe for more than a century, endured Nazi occupation, and subsequently fell under Soviet domination. Poland did not regain its full political independence from communist rule until 1989. That experience helps explain why arguments about surrendering national authority to Brussels provoke such strong reactions. The country spent generations struggling to govern itself, and immigration policy has become another arena in which the boundaries of European integration are being contested.
Poland’s confrontation with the EU began during the 2015 migration crisis when Brussels attempted to distribute asylum seekers among member states through mandatory relocation quotas. Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic refused to comply, and the European Court of Justice ruled against them in 2020. The legal defeat did not settle the political disagreement. Polish governments continued arguing that immigratio
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