Poland's new Prime Minister says her country will refuse to take in 4,500 refugees as part of an EU quota blaming the Paris terror attacks.

Beata Szydlo said her government was not prepared to accept the quota system, saying the massacres in the French capital had 'changed the situation.'

Hundreds of thousands of people have reached Europe as Syrian refugees in recent months, including at least one using a passport found at the scene of one of the Paris attacks.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, who says her country will refuse to take in 4,500 refugees in wake of Paris terror attacks. She spoke without the EU flag flying in the background

The man is thought to have travelled into Europe with another, who blew himself up near the Stade de France.

Poland's previous centre-right pro-EU government backed the deal to take in 4,500 refugees in September.

But the new government, formed earlier this month by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, appears to have reversed the Polish position.

Mrs Szydlo said: 'After Paris, the situation has changed.

'We will be proposing to sit down at a table and think over, whether the solutions which have been proposed are good.

Poland's previous centre-right pro-EU government backed the deal to take in 4,500 refugees in September. Pictured are child refugees waiting to cross the Greek-Macedonian border

The new Prime Minister's comments break ranks with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia who support a deal to share 120,000 refugees across the 28-nation bloc. Pictured are migrants travelling to Macedonia from Greece

'In our view, we are not prepared to accept those quotas of refugees.'

The new Prime Minister's comments break ranks with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia who support the deal to share 120,000 refugees across the 28-nation bloc.

Any revision to the deal would likely deepen the divisions within the EU over how to handle the more than 800,000 migrants who have entered the bloc this year, mostly fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

More than 800,000 migrants have entered the EU this year, mostly fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa

Meanwhile Mrs Syzdlo risked provoking more divisions with the EU when journalists gathered for her press conference yesterday discovered the blue and gold star-studded European Union flag was not on display, only the red and white Polish one.

The new Polish government, which won the election after eight years in opposition supports the country's EU membership but is eurosceptic and desires greater independence from Brussels.

Asked about the missing flag, Mrs Szydlo said: 'We're an active EU member... but we adopted the approach that statements after government meetings will take place against a backdrop of the most beautiful ... white-and-red flags."

'We're going to pursue a policy that, while appreciating our EU membership, secures maximum benefit for our Polish citizens, for Poland's economy and for our homeland.