US EditionMigration: What the Border Dispute with Poland Means for Germany
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Concern for traffic jams on the German side and refugee camps in the no man's country: From Monday onwards Poland will also introduce increased border controls. Why Warsaw decides so and how this could influence German politics.
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Poland is introducing border controls – officially because of irregular migration, but de facto also as a warning signal to Berlin. Welt correspondent Philipp Fritz from Warsaw explains why Prime Minister Donald Tusk is acting now, how Lithuania and Latvia are coming into play – and why the European asylum debate is increasingly shifting to the external borders. In Berlin, the coalition committee is …
New Wave of Migrant Crisis: Poland Restores Border Controls on the Border with Lithuania and Germany
The opposition accused Tusk's government of accepting many illegal migrants deported from Germany into the country.
29 countries belong to the Schengen area, which actually promises a control-free passenger transport. Poland is now the twelfth country to introduce border controls at the German-Polish borders. Prime Minister Tusk announced that border officials should partially control from Monday. ARD correspondent Lisa Bertram reports from Warsaw.
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