Poland will launch the deployment of 5,000 soldiers to reinforce the border control tasks with Germany and Lithuania, in response to the plan that since 2023 Berlin has been deploying to control access to its territory to curb illegal immigration, explained this Friday the General Staff.
The German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has been ordering more intense border controls shortly after assuming the position in May, including a controversial measure to reject asylum seekers on the border.
However, the Polish Minister of Defense, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, has ruled out that these control tasks will be carried out jointly, remarked that the agents work on their side of the corresponding border. Germany “will not tell us what we have to do in Poland,” he has settled.
The Polish army has extensive experience in these lides since several years ago it began to collaborate with the border agents in the control of the bordering areas with Belarus, the scene of constant altercations for which Minsk is responsible, which would act in response to the sanctions of the EU.
German immigration laws are a usual issue in the debate of Poland’s politician. The ultra -conservative opposition accuses Donald Tusk’s government of giving in to Berlin’s pressures and accepting a large number of migrants, even celebrating the presence of citizen patrols on the border.
The elected president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice Party (PIS), has applauded these factions sponsored by the border defense movement, founded by a well -known local ultra -rightist.
According to the Ministry of Interior of Germany, some 1,300 people have been rejected at the border that they share with Poland since May 8.