The German interior minister in a letter to his Polish counterpart has thanked the Polish border guard for protecting the EU border with Belarus, but suggested that Poland should seek the assistance of EU border agency Frontex.
The Polish president, recalling his Monday conversation with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that he could dispel concerns about the possibility of introducing controls on the Polish-German border.
Poland wants the European Council to impose more sanctions on Belarus in retaliation for hybrid attacks, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, said on Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
A meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg has agreed to impose further sanctions against Belarusian officials responsible for human rights abuses and creating a migrant crisis at the country's borders with Poland and other member states.
Poland should have a new legal regulation regarding the situation at its border where there has been a surge in numbers of migrants crossing into the country from Belarus, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, has said.
On the Belarusian-Polish border there are Cuban citizens, together with other immigrants from Middle East and Africa, attempting to enter European Union territory by crossing from Belarus into Poland, claims the independent Cuban portal 14ymedio.
A senior Polish security official has accused the Belarusian government of earning millions of dollars from sending hundreds of migrants into Poland.
The Sejm (lower house) on Thursday voted through an act enabling the construction of a wall along the Polish-Belarusian border to stop migrants trying to enter Poland from Belarus.
The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires on Thursday to discuss the deteriorating situation on the Polish-Belarusian border.
The body of a young man, probably a migrant attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus, has been found close to the Polish-Belarusian border, a spokesman for the local police announced on Monday.
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