Poland criticizes Germany’s plan for tougher border controls

Poland criticizes Germany’s plan for tougher border controls

Just days before his debut visit to Warsaw, Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz already hit a diplomatic snag.

If the Christian democrats do so, the Federal Police should already tighten up border controls next Tuesday. Germany's eastern neighbour sees the project as critical.

"The current controls on the German-Polish border are already a problem," says Poland's de facto ambassador Tombinski.

The Polish ambassador in Berlin criticizes the German plan to tighten border controls

Controls at the German-Polish border pose a problem for daily border traffic, as well as for the functioning of the EU internal market, and therefore we do not want them to be tightened – said the head of the Polish embassy in Germany Jan Tombiński in an interview with the Politico portal. The portal points out that these words were spoken just a few days before the first visit to Warsaw by the future Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz. Tombi…

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Poland voices concern over German plans to step up border controls

Poland's embassy in Berlin has raised concerns over plans by Germany's incoming conservative-led government to tighten border controls, warning such measures could harm cross-border traffic and the functioning of the EU's internal market, reported dpa. This was already a problem with current controls at the German-Polish border, Polish acting ambassador in Berlin, Jan Tombinski, told news magazine Politico in remarks published on Friday. Tombins…