Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk has sharply criticized the planned migration policy of the new federal government. “Germany will let them go to its area. Whoever it wants. Poland will only let them in his area,” said Tusk in Warsaw when Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). Neither the impression should arise nor should the facts be created that some including Germany will send certain groups of migrants to Poland.
Tusk thus plays on what was built in Eisenhüttenstadt near the border with Poland “Dublin Center”, which should ensure faster return of asylum seekers to other EU countries. There, transfers of migrants are to be organized primarily to Poland.
Poland's head of government also rejected Merz's project to tighten border controls. “If someone introduces control on the Polish border, Poland will also introduce such control. And that simply makes no sense in the long run.”
Tusk pointed out that his country would wear a heavy load with the guarding of the EU's outer border. The government in Warsaw accuses the regime of the Belarusian ruler Alexandr Lukaschenko, in a targeted form to lock migrants from crisis regions to the eastern border of the EU. Tusk said that he expects the new federal government to cooperate in securing the external borders.
Merz said Poland support to protect the EU outer border. “We find it an obligation to better protect these European external borders with German support and help than we have succeeded in in the past”, ” said the CDU politician in Warsaw. He assumes that “good solutions” will come on this question. At the same time, Merz urged a common European solution to limit illegal migration.
Against this background, he defended the increased controls at the German borders, but at the same time confessed to the Schengen rules that actually provide open borders within the EU. Little border traffic is an important factor for jobs and prosperity, and therefore free passenger transport in the EU is a common interest.
