Poland introduces controls: Polish border controls: GdP fears “Pingpong game” | EUROtoday

The police union (GdP) is anxious with the event on the border with Poland. “Poland is now doing what they announced some time ago,” stated the GdP Federal Chair for the Federal Police and customs, Andreas Roßkopf, the German Press Agency. This has an incredible threat that you’ll get right into a “pingpong game” on the border, wherein Germany rejects individuals and Polish border guards then don’t settle for them or reject them to Germany. This is completely essential to keep away from, stated the commerce unionist.

Poland had beforehand introduced that it was briefly introducing controls on the border with Germany. A corresponding order from the Ministry of the Interior will come into pressure from subsequent Monday, stated head of presidency Donald Tusk. There may even be evaluations on the border with the jap neighboring nation of Lithuania.

Answer to tightened controls

The step is a response to German controls, stated Tusk. “I warned the German side in March and talked about it several times with the new Chancellor.” Germany has been checking randomly on the border with Poland since October 2023 to stop irregular migration. Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) intensified these inpatient controls instantly after taking workplace on May seventh. At the identical time, he ordered that asylum seekers may also be rejected on the border sooner or later.

There was additionally criticism of the brand new guidelines from Luxembourg and Switzerland. Dobrindt stated on the finish of May in an interview with the “Welt am Sonntag”: “There are no problems at the German borders.” You do not wish to overwhelm the neighbors in Germany. “But our neighbors also have to recognize that Germany is no longer willing to continue their migration policy in recent years.”

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