Overview

• A demonstration in Warsaw's Castle Square organized by the Law and Justice party protested irregular migration and the EU's migration policy.
• Attendance was estimated at 3,000 to 4,000 versus 20,000 registered participants, according to tagesschau.de.
• PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski criticized Prime Minister Donald Tusk's stance on migration and employed anti-German rhetoric during the event.
• President Karol Nawrocki recently informed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that he will not agree to apply the EU migration and asylum pact in Poland.
• Nawrocki and PiS contend Poland has met its obligations by hosting about one million Ukrainian war refugees and reject relocations to Poland under the pact.