Polish PM Ewa Kopacz has said she'll take in more refugees under the EU relocation scheme, despite fierce opposition ahead of elections.
She told MPs at a parliament debate on Wednesday (16 September): "Poland has a chance to set an example in Europe".
Echoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-migrant speech in the Bundestag on 30 August, she said: "Can't a country of 40 million people [Poland] afford a gesture of solidarity?".
"We live today in a better part of the wo...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.