{"id":230027,"date":"2025-07-01T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230027\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:00:10","slug":"polands-tit-for-tat-border-checks-further-weaken-schengen-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230027\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s tit-for-tat border checks further weaken Schengen \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPoland\u2019s western border is ceasing to exist,\u201d Mariusz B\u0142aszczak, a senior PiS politician, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mblaszczak\/status\/1939212912112918607\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> last week. He blamed Tusk\u2019s \u201cservility toward Berlin.\u201d S\u0142awomir Mentzen, a Confederation leader, accused the Polish Border Guard of cooperating with Germany in accepting illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The government has denounced those attacks. \u201cDon\u2019t play politics with Poland\u2019s security. This is not the time or place for such actions,\u201d Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland\u2019s interior minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomaszSiemoniak\/status\/1939290750975447290\" target=\"_blank\">said on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s retaliatory controls have also put Merz\u2019s border policy in the firing line, with Germany\u2019s left-wing opposition painting Warsaw\u2019s decision as a clear setback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a devastating signal for a German government and a \u2018foreign chancellor\u2019 Merz, who promised to regain trust in Europe,\u201d Chantal Kopf, a lawmaker for the Greens, told POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>Knut Abraham, a member of Merz\u2019s conservatives and the government\u2019s coordinator for the German-Polish relationship, in an interview with Welt also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/ausland\/article256331410\/tusk-regierung-spd-gibt-merz-die-schuld-fuer-polens-grenz-vorstoss-davor-warnen-wir-seit-jahren.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> against lasting checks. While they are \u201cnecessary as a political signal that migration policy in Germany has changed \u2026 the solution cannot be to push migrants back and forth between Poland and Germany or to cement border controls on both sides,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Merz on Tuesday defended Germany\u2019s border checks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe naturally want to preserve this Schengen area, but freedom of movement in the Schengen area will only work in the long term if it is not abused by those who promote irregular migration, in particular by smuggling migrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPoland\u2019s western border is ceasing to exist,\u201d Mariusz B\u0142aszczak, a senior PiS politician, warned last week. He blamed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[5108,768,7961,5898,2000,299,1945,11070,1824,40,6657,770,18241,34589,75108],"class_list":{"0":"post-230027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-cross-border","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-friedrich-merz","15":"tag-german-politics","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-migration","19":"tag-poland","20":"tag-polish-politics","21":"tag-schengen-area","22":"tag-schengen-zone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779522603215214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}