Poland’s Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said that the government would take control of the country’s borders if she “was notified about any threat”, the media reported. “What are the conditions?”

Kopacz also reiterated Poland’s rejection of fixed refugee quotas and demanded very tight controls on the EU’s external borders hours ahead of a key meeting in Brussels focused the European Commission’s plan which involves a quota system for distributing 160,000 refugees around the bloc.

PM Ewa Kopacz in Poznań on Monday.

The Polish parliament is scheduled to hold an extraordinary sitting to debate the migrants crisis on Wednesday.

Kopacz said Poland would accept as many refugees as it could afford, no more no less.

Another thousand or so joined a “Welcome refugees” rally in favour of hosting migrants in Poland, a strongly Catholic European Union member state which has a population of 38 million and has seen hardly any newcomers arriving, despite Europe experiencing its biggest movement of people since World War II.

Hungary, which is building a fence along its border and says it will arrest illegal migrants from this week, wants much stricter controls around the edges of the EU. “I told him that we would act in solidarity with Europe but, above all, we shall demonstrate prudence and responsibility”, the Prime Minister said.