WARSAW (Reuters) - Migrants fleeing conflict should stay as close as possible to their home countries, Poland's president said on Friday, criticising proposals for an overhaul of the European Union's migration and asylum rules.
"For the sake of those countries from which these people are escaping war today, they need to be as close to their borders as possible in order to have the greatest possible enthusiasm and motivation to come back and rebuild them," President Andrzej Duda told public broadcaster TVP Info.
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