Germany’s Olaf Scholz threatens Poland with border checks amid cash-for-visas scandal
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz known as on Poland to analyze stories that officers issued a whole bunch of hundreds of unlawful work visas and threatened to revive controls on the Polish border.
“I don’t need Poland simply to wave by way of” migrants, Scholz mentioned at a Social Democratic marketing campaign occasion in Nuremberg.
“Relying on the scenario, we might must take extra measures at our borders, as an illustration at that one.”
Germany’s warning raises the prospect of disruptions at a border between two European Union economies and provides to friction with the federal government in Warsaw as Poland heads towards a parliamentary election on October 15.
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Each nations are members of Europe’s visa-free journey settlement that’s meant to clean journey and commerce.
Scholz and Faeser have beforehand resisted calls to introduce border controls and the feedback sign growing strain on Germany’s authorities to answer rising numbers of undocumented arrivals.
Polish media have reported that bribes have been concerned in permitting greater than 250,000 residents of African and Asian nations to work in Poland over the previous 2½ years.
The overseas ministry in Warsaw disputed the quantity and mentioned it’s investigating solely 268 visa requests. EU Dwelling Affairs Commissioners Ylva Johansson has requested Poland to offer “clarifications” by October 3.
‘Money-for-visas’ scandal hits Poland’s anti-migration authorities
‘Money-for-visas’ scandal hits Poland’s anti-migration authorities
Greater than 204,000 folks requested asylum in Germany by way of August, a 77 per cent improve in comparison with the identical interval final yr, in accordance with authorities knowledge.
Greater than 12,000 undocumented migrants have been taken into custody on the Polish border within the first half of this yr, in accordance with German police.
Poland’s right-wing authorities has lengthy criticised Germany’s liberal immigration method and has rejected an EU-wide refugee coverage. Scholz was in Nuremberg to marketing campaign for his get together forward of a state election in Bavaria, the place the governing conservative Christian Social Union holds a large lead in polls forward of the October 8 vote.
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