The Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, announced on Tuesday that from Monday, July 7, temporary controls would be restored on borders with Germany and Lithuania in order to “minimize the flow of immigrants”.
At a press conference in Warsaw, Tusk said that this measure was “necessary” after complaints of residents of border regions of “hot return” of migrants by the German police. Tusk confirmed that “each case will be verified, and people without a clear legal situation will not be accepted in Poland.”
Earlier, the Prime Minister noted that the re -introduction of control will be a “last remedy”, and this will mean “painful” consequences for thousands of polls living in border areas.
This decision takes place in the context of growing tension after Germany, which has already introduced its own border control with Poland in 2023, began in May to reject the applicants on the shelter on the border after the arrival of the conservative chancellor Friedrich Merets. German management elements caused important traffic jams for workers with cross workers and poles, sometimes with tails up to 15 km in customs.
Although the Polish government confirmed that information on the mass arrival of migrants from the West is “exaggerated” and that most incidents are “isolated cases”, the question was nourished by internal political debates.
The Polish President, Angier, doubted, criticized Germany on Monday for “creating his own migration problem” and “pushed” migrants into the Polish territory, and accused the government of Tusk de Unaction.
For his part, the German Chancellor said on Tuesday that his government knows the concern of Poland’s executive director about irregular migration. “We know that now the Polish government also wants to carry out border control with Lithuania in order to limit illegal crossings of Lithuania to Poland,” said Merz, who mentioned his last conversation with TUSK last weekend and contacts that keep the interior of Berlin and Warsaw.
Mertz defended that the measure carried out by his government is due to the fact that “the protection of the external borders of Europe is not enough.” “We have a common problem that we want to solve together,” the Chancellor said, adding that he was striving to “maintain Schengen’s space.”
Meanwhile, nationalist groups in Poland organized “civilian patrols” in border areas with Germany to prevent German “hot deliveries”. The Polish Prime Minister disads these actions and insisted that the security of the borders “is state responsibility.”
