Poland may introduce checks on its border with Germany in coming weeks to clamp down on its neighbour pushing back undocumented migrants, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday.
Migration was a key issue in Poland’s presidential campaign won by nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki on June 1 against a pro-European candidate supported by Tusk.
Germany’s conservative government toughened its border checks upon taking office in May, and Nawrocki had called for tougher controls on the frontier with Poland’s western neighbour to stop it sending back migrants.
Tusk said it was “very probable that from this summer we will introduce such partial controls on the frontier with Germany”.
The prime minister, whose government won a parliamentary confidence vote on Wednesday, added that he had warned Germany that his government would intensely monitor “any attempt to send any migrant to Poland”.
Tusk said Poland was seeking support within European Union members to limit or even suspend no visa travel, particularly with Georgia.
Polish authorities recently expelled a number of Georgian migrants accused of criminal activity.
It has also launched a campaign to deter migrants from seeking to enter the EU across the Belarus-Poland frontier.
Poland has accused Belarus and its Russian ally of organising migrant crossings into Poland in a bid to destabilise the EU.
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