Polish PM calls for urgent consultations with European neighbours over controls he says will break European lawEurope live – latest updatesThe Polish government has accused Germany of acting unilaterally and unfairly over its “unacceptable” plans to introduce temporary controls at all of the country’s nine land borders, in what Warsaw has said is a contravention of European law.Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, said Germany had introduced a “de facto suspension of the Schengen agreement on a large scale” after the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, announced Berlin’s decision to confront what she called “irregular migration” by introducing spot controls along Germany’s 2,300-mile (3,700km) frontier following a recent spate of suspected Islamist attacks. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/germany-steps-up-controls-at-borders-in-response-to-irregular-migration
Author : Kate Connolly in Berlin
Publish date : 2024-09-10 17:19:34
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German border plan to stop ‘irregular migration’ unacceptable, says Tusk
