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Poland introduces controls at border to Germany
Poland announces that it will control the German-Polish border next week. Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to master the migration.
Poland temporarily wants to introduce controls on the border with Germany. A corresponding order from the Ministry of the Interior will come into force from next Monday, said Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a cabinet meeting in Warsaw. There will also be reviews on the border with the eastern neighboring country of Lithuania.
The step is a reaction to German controls, said Tusk. “I warned the German side in March and talked about it several times with the new Chancellor.” His country’s patient attitude towards the one -sided controls could no longer be maintained by the changed practice that people are now being sent back to Poland.
Controls at all German borders
Germany has been checking randomly on the border with Poland since October 2023 to stop irregular migration. Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) had more intensive border controls shortly after the new Federal Government started in May. At the same time, he ordered that asylum seekers can also be rejected at the border in the future.
The Federal Government also records this practice even after an endurance decision by the Berlin Administrative Court. The court had noticed that the rejection of three Somalians during a border control at Frankfurt (Oder) on May 9th was illegal. Without a clarification as to which EU state is responsible for an asylum application by the person concerned, they should not be rejected. The Federal Ministry of the Interior of Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) sees this as a individual decision. The three affected people had been sent back to Poland.
Poland: Prime Minister Tusk is under pressure
In Poland, the rejections from the western neighboring country are an exciting topic. Tusk’s center-left government is under the pressure of the right-wing conservative opposition party PIS. “Germany regularly pushes illegal migrants on our side. The state has dismissed and chaos and impunity are increasing from day to day,” wrote PiS boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski on Monday on X.
In the meantime, ultra -rights from the “movement to defend the borders” organize self -proclaimed patrols at border crossings to Germany. On social media, they boast of stopping suspiciously looking people and asking their papers. Tusk criticized this procedure as shameful.
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Source: Stern
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