Poland decided to extend temporary checks on its borders with Lithuania and Germany by another 60 days, ie until 4 October. This was announced on Sunday by the new Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiňski, writes TASR according to PAP. Warsaw introduced such random borderline controls for the onslaught of illegal migration on July 7, at the earliest 30 days, so their validity without extension would expire on August 5.
Kierwiňski, however, announced – after a Sunday meeting to the situation at the border he graduated with the representatives of the individual voivodes, – that it was already decided on Friday to extend the controls by October 4. The decision was notified to the European Commission. The fact that the wall on the Polish-white border is on the “98 % impermeable” It forces, according to Kierwiňa illegal migrants, as well as Russian and Belarusian services, which Warsaw claims that their onslaught deliberately evoke to seek other routes.
The Polish Minister has explained that in this respect is Now the most urgent task of Warsaw, but also its partners in the EU to close (migration) route, which now leads through the territory of Lithuania and Latvia. Added that the decision to extend the validity of the border controls were informed “all partners of Poland”, who responded with understanding.
The German agency DPA writes that the extension of the validity of random border controls by Poland was expected. He was announced in advance by Kierwiňský’s predecessor in the office, Tomasz Siemoniak. The head of the Polish border guard Robert Bagan informed on Sunday that Since the introduction of controls of 7 July, joining Poland has been rejected by a total of 185 persons, 124 persons at the German border and another 61 at the border with Lithuania. In the accelerated procedural procedure, he returned to Germany six and 49 people to Lithuania. He added that 493,000 people were randomly proven in the border controls with both countries by August 2.
Germany also carries out random checks at the border with Poland since October 2023. Shortly after May, the new government of Friedrich Merz’s office has tightened them. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt then introduced a measure that allows the German border guards to return migrants back directly at the border, even if they apply for asylum.
