On Monday 6 December, the Member States began their examination of the proposal for an EU Council decision put forward by the European Commission on 1 December on the basis of Article 78.3 in an ‘Asylum’ working group, and Poland was able to express its reservations about this text, which in its view does not seem to be sufficient to deal with the situation at its border with Belarus.
On 1 December, the Commission had proposed relaxations of the Asylum and Return Directives to Poland,...