Poland is planning controls at the border with Germany from Monday

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Poland is planning controls at the border with Germany from Monday

The trouble about the German border controls is cooked up in the eastern neighboring country. Now Poland reacts with its own controls. How long they stay should depend on the Federal Government’s approach.

In response to German border controls, Poland will temporarily introduce its own controls on the border to 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. In the future, it will also be checked on the border with the eastern neighbor Lithuania.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) defended the German border controls to combat irregular migration against growing criticism from neighboring countries. “We have to do border controls at the moment because the protection of the European external borders is not sufficiently guaranteed,” said the CDU boss after a meeting with the Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden in Berlin.

In contrast, the police union (GdP) fears a “pingpong game” on the border, in which Germany in the future has been back, while Polish border guards could not accept them or reject them.

A spokesman for the EU Commission pointed out that controls at the internal limits are possible under certain conditions.

Prime Minister Tusk made it clear that Poland reacted to the Federal Government’s approach. “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.

The expected period of Polish controls also made Tusk dependent on decisions by the federal government. The German controls in September should actually end, but there is information that they should be extended, the head of government said. “Our answer to this will also be symmetrical. Time is finally over when Poland does not respond appropriately to certain measures.”

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. However, the Federal Ministry of the Interior evaluates this as a individual decision.

Merz continued that he had spoken to Tusk several times about the topic. They want to keep the loads together as low as possible. “We have a common problem here that we want to solve together.”

Merz decidedly rejected Polish media reports, according to which there were returns from asylum seekers already recorded in Germany to Poland. “It is partially claimed here that there is literally a return tourism from Germany to Poland and they would then be practically over the border back to Poland. This is not the case.”

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.