{"id":314503,"date":"2025-08-03T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314503\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:32:14","slug":"poland-extends-border-controls-with-germany-and-lithuania-until-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314503\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland extends border controls with Germany and Lithuania until October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Poland is extending its temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania until October 4. This was announced by Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski on Sunday. The reason given was continued concerns regarding irregular migration.<\/p>\n<p>Increased security measures have made the route via Belarus and Russia largely impassable, which is why the migration movement is increasingly shifting to other EU states &#8211; especially Lithuania and Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 98% tightness of our barrier means that Belarusian and Russian services and illegal migration are moving to other sections,\u201d says Kierwi\u0144ski.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the main task not only for us but also for our partners in the European Union is to close the route to Lithuania and Latvia, if I may use that word,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In response to illegal migration, Germany introduced controls at its borders with Poland and the Czech Republic. Last year, these controls were extended to all borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn September, we will decide on the next steps in this regard based on data from the border guards, the military and the police,\u201d Kierwi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<p>In Lithuania, controls are being carried out at 13 locations, including three border crossings. The remaining 10 border crossing sites will be &#8216;ad hoc control sites&#8217;, which can be used by local residents.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, border controls are carried out at 52 locations.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to maintain controls at internal Schengen borders continues to undermine the EU principle of free movement of people.<\/p>\n<p>However, Schengen countries are allowed to introduce border controls in what they consider to be &#8217;emergency&#8217; situations, which occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, or as a &#8216;last resort&#8217; for security threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Poland is extending its temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania until October 4. This was announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[51180,2000,299,1824,9895,1114,6657,770],"class_list":{"0":"post-314503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-border-controls","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-illegal-immigration","13":"tag-lithuania","14":"tag-migration","15":"tag-poland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964853190665338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314503","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=314503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}