{"id":211744,"date":"2026-11-13T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211744\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:11:28","slug":"poland-prolongs-restrictions-on-asylum-requests-at-border-with-belarus-by-another-60-days","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211744\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland prolongs restrictions on asylum requests at border with Belarus by another 60 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 13, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The Polish Sejm has voted 425 to 17 with one abstention to extend restrictions on the acceptance of asylum requests at the border with Belarus by another 60 days, Monitor Polski<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its appeal to the lower parliamentary house, the Polish government cited reports of \u201caggressive foreigners\u201d at the border with Belarus throwing \u201crocks, bottles, bricks, and smoldering branches at law-enforcement officers and using sticks fitted with knives and nails.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the Sejm\u2019s meeting on November 5, Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk said that although irregular migrants had stopped trying to cross from Belarus into Poland recently, shifting their focus to Lithuania and Latvia, drones and balloons from Belarus continue invading the Polish airspace. He warned that Belarus could quickly resume migrant pressure on Poland if the restrictions were lifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Duszczyk, the European Commission is working on a \u201ccrisis mechanism\u201d modelled after Poland\u2019s strategy against the \u201cabuse of international protection procedures.\u201d The proposal is expected to be unveiled before the end of the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland stopped accepting asylum requests at the border with Belarus on March 27, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flow of people eager to enter the European Union surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, \u0141uka\u0161enka claimed that foreigners were traveling to the EU because they were \u201cinvited there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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