Nevertheless, Poland’s prime minister was in little question that the measures have been triggered by “the interior German political state of affairs… and never our coverage in the direction of unlawful migration at our borders”.
Poland has confronted a surge in unlawful migrant crossings over its border with Belarus since 2021 which it considers a part of a “hybrid battle” waged by each Belarus and Russia. Lots of the migrants head for Germany.
Donald Tusk instructed a gathering of Polish diplomats in Warsaw he would ask for pressing consultations with all of the international locations affected.
European Fee spokeswoman Anitta Hipper stated any reintroduction of border checks needed to be finished in step with the Schengen code, so whereas Germany’s measures have been attainable, “these controls have to be mandatory and proportionate”.
In Austria, the place the far proper is main the opinion polls forward of 29 September elections, Inside Minister Gerhard Karner stated that he had instructed the pinnacle of police to not take anybody again who had been rejected by Germany.
“There isn’t any leeway,” he instructed the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The mayor of a Dutch border city, Joris Bengevoord, stated the border area with Germany had already skilled delays throughout the Euro 2024 soccer championship over the summer season, when Germany imposed momentary border checks.
“At some border crossings, ready occasions have been as much as half an hour,” stated Mr Bengevoord, who’s chairman of the Euregio alliance of German and Dutch border cities.
Dutch transport group TLN accused Germany of undermining the Schengen settlement.
Some political leaders on the appropriate within the Netherlands have taken a distinct view.
“If Germany can do it, why cannot we?” requested Geert Wilders, whose anti-immigration, far-right Freedom Celebration got here first in final yr’s Dutch elections and is now a part of the federal government. “So far as I am involved, the earlier the higher.”
Dilan Yesilgöz of the centre-right liberal VVD was additionally eager on the “super-interesting” German plan. It despatched a message that the federal government wished management, she stated, even when political symbolism by itself was of little assist.