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Poland extends its controls on the border with Germany
Poland’s border protection on the common border with Germany has been controlling since the beginning of July. Now the controls should remain until spring.
Poland once again extends the temporary controls on the border with Germany. The reviews planned until October 4 would remain until April 4 next year, as the Interior Ministry in Warsaw announced on platform X. The controls on the border to the eastern neighbor Lithuania are also extended.
“We extend the controls to control the migration route that leads from the Baltic states via Poland to Western Europe,” Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski was quoted in his authority’s post. “We summarize people who illegally try to smuggle migrants into the West.” The most important task of the Polish border protection remains to hold the border to Belarus and to protect against migration pressure.
Poland and the EU accuse Belarusian rulers Alexander Lukaschenko, in organized form, to have brought migrants from crisis regions to the EU’s external border in order to put pressure on the West. Many of these migrants want to travel further from Poland to Germany.
Poland reacts to German controls
The government in Warsaw introduced the border controls in early July in response to German controls. Prime Minister Donald Tusk had made a possible end of this measure dependent on decisions by the federal government.
Germany has been checking randomly on the border with Poland since October 2023 to stop irregular migration. Federal Minister of the Interior Dobrindt 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 government in Warsaw had followed up under the pressure of right -wing agriculture in summer. They looked for illegal migrants and tried to control state border protection. They assumed that Germany pushed refugees who were not previously in Poland. In the meantime, these activities of the civil authorities have declined sharply.
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Source: Stern
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