Polish minister attacks David Cameron's child benefit plan
David Cameron has not changed, his spokesman says Poland's foreign minister has criticised David Cameron's call for a change to European Union treaties to allow the withdrawal of child benefit from migrants working in the UK.
Writing on Twitter, Radoslaw Sikorski asked: "If Britain gets our taxpayers, shouldn't it also pay their benefits?"
He added that Polish taxpayers should not "subsidise" UK taxpayers' children.
Mr Cameron has said the UK prime minister thought the system is not "right" and needs to change.
On Sunday, he told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that he would try to renegotiate the UK's membership with the EU to allow it to withhold welfare payments such as child benefit from workers of other European nations.
'Stigma'EU citizens who come to the UK to work are currently entitled to claim child benefit, even if their children live abroad.
Mr Sikorski tweeted: "If Britain gets our taxpayers, shouldn't it also pay their benefits? Why should Polish taxpayers subsidise British taxpayers' children?"
He added: "UK social security rules apply to all resident EU citizens. No need to stigmatise Poles. What about British children abroad?"
In response, Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: "The prime minister's view won't have changed. He set it out in yesterday's media interview.
"It is one of the points he made in his speech on migration in March last year. It remains the prime minister's long-standing view."
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