Poland: Asylum and immigration
01 January 1991
Poland: Asylum and immigration
artdoc July=1994
New German/Polish border agreement
Following talks with the German Interior Minister, Manfred
Kanther, Andrzej Milczanowski, his Polish counterpart has
announced plans to send back by plane within 48 hours foreigners
attempting to cross into Poland.
In 1993, Poland and Germany signed an agreement whereby Poland
agreed to take back asylum-seekers who had travelled via Poland
to Bonn and whose asylum applications were subsequently rejected.
Last year Germany sent back 2,679 asylum-seekers and Poland
accepted all but 28 of them. According to Mr. Milczanowski,
Poland is experiencing some difficulties in implementing the
agreement and have requested that Germany should prove that
asylum -seekers had indeed entered Germany via Poland on the
basis of visas stamped onto their passports (BN 6.2.94).
Racism and fascism
Zhirinovsky visits Poland
Vladimir Zhirinovsky was guest of honour at a congress of the
Samoobrona National Front in Warsaw. Zhirinovksy told the
congress that he wanted to set up a pan-Slavonic union under
Russian leadership, stretching from the Adriatic to the Baltic.
Protestors who demonstrated at WarsawØs Okecie airport against
Zhirinovsky's visit were jostled by thugs covered in balaclavas
and armed with baseball bats (Warsaw Voice 20.3.94).
IRR European Race Audit, Bulletin no 8, May 1994. Contact:Liz
Fekete, Insitute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X
9HS. Tel: 071 837 0041