Poland to start temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania, Tusk says

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Poland to start temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania, Tusk says  Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the measures were "necessary to reduce the uncontrolled flows of migrants across the Polish-German border".  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/01/poland-to-start-temporary-border-controls-with-germany-and-lithuania-tusk-says  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Poland will temporarily introduce border controls with Germany and Lithuania.

00:07The country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the measures were necessary

00:11to reduce the uncontrolled flow of migrants across the border.

00:15His government has been under pressure from nationalist opposition parties

00:19over irregular migrants being returned to Poland from Germany.

00:23The decision comes after new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

00:27made tougher migration policy a pillar of his election campaign in February.

00:32With the Polish government we are talking about joint controls

00:37in the same border border, both on the German side as on the Polish side.

00:42I can only say that there is both between the government-chefs,

00:46also between Donald Tusk and me, as well as between the Prime Minister

00:50a very enge, very collegial, friendly cooperation,

00:54because we want to solve a joint problem together.

00:58Tusk said he had spoken to Merz on several occasions

01:01and told him that Poland's patience on the issue was quote-unquote

01:04running out.

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