{"id":30254,"date":"2025-07-01T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30254\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:08:10","slug":"poland-to-impose-border-checks-with-germany-lithuania-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30254\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u00a0on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/germanys-merz-want-keep-schengen-area-cannot-be-abused-2025-07-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended<\/a>\u00a0Germany\u2019s border checks. \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<p>The interior ministers of Germany and Poland had discussed the situation during a lengthy phone call Monday evening, Merz said in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also talking to the Polish government about joint controls in the respective border hinterland,\u201d the chancellor said.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Polish media reports, Merz said he wanted to clarify that Berlin did not push back asylum-seekers who had already arrived. \u201cSome people here are claiming that there is, so to speak, regular repatriation tourism from Germany to Poland \u2026 That is not the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish checks would by no means be an exception in the European free travel area: As of July 1, 11 of the Schengen area\u2019s 29 countries \u2014 including Austria, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands \u2014 had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/policies\/schengen\/schengen-area\/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notified the European Commission<\/a>\u00a0of plans to reintroduce border controls, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/policies\/schengen\/schengen-area\/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive\u2019s record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That list doesn\u2019t yet include Belgium, which last month announced it\u2019d roll out \u201centry controls\u201d over the summer with a stated aim to halt illegal migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u00a0on Tuesday defended\u00a0Germany\u2019s border checks. \u201cWe naturally want to preserve this Schengen area, but freedom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18808,25818,25819,25820,25821,117,14611,398,12489,50,123,25822,5331,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-30254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-belarus","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-lithuania","15":"tag-media","16":"tag-migration","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-poland","19":"tag-schengen-area","20":"tag-tourism","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114778846211138040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}