Poland to start temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania, Tusk says

Published on 01/07/2025 - 13:55 GMT+2

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said connected Tuesday that nan state would temporarily present separator controls pinch Germany and Lithuania owed to concerns complete irregular migration.

Tusk's authorities has been nether unit from nationalist guidance parties complete irregular migrants being returned to Poland from Germany.

Recently, Polish far-right activists person been organising patrols on nan separator pinch Germany to protestation against specified returns.

"We see nan impermanent reintroduction of controls basal to trim nan uncontrolled flows of migrants crossed nan Polish-German separator to a minimum," Tusk told a gathering of nan Council of Ministers.

Tusk said he had spoken to Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz connected respective occasions and told him that Poland's patience connected nan rumor was "running out".

Merz made tougher migration argumentation a pillar of his predetermination run successful February. After he took agency successful May, Germany stationed much constabulary astatine nan separator and said immoderate asylum-seekers trying to participate Europe’s biggest system would beryllium turned away.

Poland's determination is irrevocable "regardless of nan emotions successful different countries' capitals," he added. The measures will travel into unit connected Monday and will beryllium implemented successful a measurement that causes minimal disruption for Polish citizens, according to Tusk.

In a abstracted property conference, Poland's outgoing President Andrzej Duda criticised nan government's deficiency of consequence to nan rumor of migrants being returned from Germany.

"We cannot let nan rule to beryllium surgery and migrants to beryllium forcibly pushed into our country," Duda said.

"Germany created this migration problem and must woody pinch it connected their own. We will not lick it for them."

Just earlier Tusk announced nan move, Merz told reporters successful Berlin that his authorities was successful very adjacent interaction pinch nan Polish authorities to support nan effect of Germany’s separator controls pinch Poland "as debased arsenic possible."

"We cognize that nan Polish authorities besides wants to enforce separator controls pinch Lithuania successful bid to limit forbidden separator crossings from Lithuania to Poland," Merz told a news conference. "So, we person a communal problem present that we want to lick together."