OR Poland decided to put in operation on Sunday midnight (06.07.2025) the border checks with Germany and Lithuania, a decision aimed at limiting irregular migration.
Immigration is one of the key issues of political debate in Germany and Poland, especially after the June 1 election campaign, in which June 1, in which winner was highlighted the Carol Navrotsky with Support of the nationalist right.
«This decision was taken to address illegal immigration“, Polish Minister of Interior Thomas Simonak said last night (06.07.2025), assuring that” in no way “it is not targeted at the citizens of other EU countries, nor the Poles.
Overall 52 checkpoints have been placed on the border with Germany and 13 on the border with Lithuaniathe minister pointed out.
Checks will be valid for 30 days, from July 7 to August 5, 2025, but may be extended and will be carried out by accident. They will mainly concern vehicles that can carry many passengers, according to Polish border guards.
Poland accuses Berlin of deporting asylum immigrants to Germany.
«For about a month now, the practice on the Polish -German border has clearly changed“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, announcing the audits.
“Unlike the last ten years, the German side now has actually refusing to allow its territory to enter immigrants heading to Germany, for example, to seek asylum or to obtain other regime,” he added, saying that Berlin’s decision also caused “tensions in a justified feeling of inequality”.
The Lithuania border controls were adopted to stop immigrationwhich, according to Warsaw, is organized by Moscow and Minsk, with migratory flows passing through Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and then Poland.
The nationalist opposition and the far -right accuse Tusk’s government of ‘Retreated’ against Germany On the issue of immigration, criticizing him that he had allowed Berlin to flood Poland with immigrants.
At the end of June 2025, members of a far -right “border defense movement” set up ‘Citizens’ patrols’ At various points along the border to monitor the crossings, with the government stressing that they are illegal.
In front of fear that The German and Polish authorities will indulge in ‘ping pong’ with asylum seekersthe German interior ministry tried to reassure the citizens last week, stating that it was in contact with the Polish side.
“We will do everything possible to find a good solution, a good common solution,” said German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrid, who also suggested on the Polish side “conducting joint border controls in the future.”
Warsaw had already rejected the very idea of joint controls last week.