Reaction to Dobrindt: Poland answers with border controls

Criticism also from the SPD

Tusk counters Dobrindt: Poland is considering border controls

Germany controls the border with Poland. Now the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is relating to countermeasures. There is also criticism of the CSU man from your own cabinet.

In the dispute over permanent border controls, Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) continues to come under pressure. Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk now indicated that it was controlling in the summer at the Polish-German border. It is “very likely that we will introduce such partial controls on the border to Germany from this summer,” said Tusk in Warsaw.

Tusk is also under pressure there. In the presidential election last month, his candidate Rafal Trzaskowskis failed because of the right -wing populist challenger Karol Nawrocki. Tusk had to ask the question of trust in parliament.

Now he also pulled the Germany card, at the same time reducing European law. “I informed our neighbor, not only Germany, but also other neighboring countries, that I will not hesitate to introduce temporary controls,” he said. This step will come “if the situation is tense on the border and the pressure is great”.

According to EU law, permanent border controls are only allowed in exceptional cases, for example at major events such as EM tournaments.

Dobrindt is not only under pressure in Europe. The displeasure also grows in the black and red coalition. Federal Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig (SPD) warned a rapid legal justification of his approach after the judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court. “For me it is clear: the Federal Minister of the Interior has to deliver the reason he promised very quickly,” Hubig told the newspapers of the “Editorial Network Germany”.

It was also not entirely excluded that other courts came to other results in other procedures, said the minister. “It is certain that we will observe further judicial decisions very closely. And of course we will also talk about whether you can adhere to the rejection of asylum seekers with a view to this.”

The EU Commission relies on strict legal requirements for the introduction of border controls. However, nine of the 27 EU countries have currently applied for border controls, and there is also Norway, which the EU does not belong, but belongs to the Schengen area of ​​the passport-free travel.