© Agata Grzybowska / ReutersProtesters from far right organisations walk during a protest against refugees in Warsaw, Poland September 12, 2015.
Konrad Szymanski, who will take the office on Monday as part of the country's new conservative government, said his cabinet didn't agree with their predecessors' commitment to take a share in the refugee burden.
Now, "in the face of the tragic acts in Paris, we do not see the political possibilities to implement" the plan, he told the right-leaning news portal wPolityce.pl.
Poland joins a quartet of EU members that have defied Brussels' plan to redistribute the inflow of asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa among members of the union. Security concerns are high among the reasons touted by Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which don't want to accept predominantly Muslim refugees on their soil.
The string of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night killed at least 128 people. The French government considers the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as the culprit behind the tragedy. In fact, IS claimed responsibility for the attacks, threatening more to come.
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Centuries of gipsy holocaoust has annihilated the gipsis in west europe.
Systematiically and methodycally eradicated for centuries.
Even more orderly by the germans.
The gipsys need to be rehabilitated.
Germany need to finance and integrate 1 million gypsys. The price will be less than the military donation and compensation to israel.
France need to finance the reintegration of at least 1 million gypsys for a generation and still be in debt.
The only tolerant societies are the east europeans that has preserved the gypsys.