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Irregular migration: poland extends controls:
Migratory tensions
Poland extends controls to the German border
The measure is to put an end to clandestine crossings.
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The border post between Poland. Therefore, Belarus, barred with barbed wire and a fence, in Polowce-Pieszczatka, in Poland, on July 21, 2025, where the Polish interior minister and his German counterpart were expected for a visit.
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Poland has extended temporary controls at its borders with Germany. However, Lithuania, Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski announced on Sunday, a irregular migration: poland extends controls measure that aims to tighten the fight against irregular migration.
“The appropriate regulations were adopted. sent to the European Commission for notification on Friday,” said Kierwinski at a meeting with regional governors. He said that controls. reintroduced last month After Germany has taken similar measures to stop migrants in an irregular situation, would be extended until October 4.
The Minister said that strengthening controls. barriers to the Polish border with Russia and the Belarus had made it possible to put an end to clandestine crossings. He estimated that it was now “fundamental” to lock the migratory road which formed through Latvia. Lithuania then Poland to Germany.
More than 493. 000 people crossing the borders separating Poland from Germany and Lithuania were controlled by the Polish border guards between July 7 and irregular migration: poland extends controls August 2, their leader, Robert Bagan, said during the meeting.
The Polish authorities say that hundreds of people. mainly from the Middle East, cross the Baltic States from the Belarus every month.
European countries that are part of the Schengen area can establish border controls if they believe that there is a threat to public order. internal security.
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