The decision of the Germans may mark the beginning of the end of the Schengen area, which was created on the basis of the Schengen Agreement, signed in 1985. It covers, inter alia, the protection of the borders of 29 countries, the protection of individual data, common cooperation between the police services of the associate States, the issuing of visas to foreigners and the operation of the Schengen Information System.
Controls at the German-Polish border have been in force since October 2023. The head of the German Ministry of abroad Affairs then introduced stationary border checks with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland to reduce illegal migration. specified controls have been applied at the Austrian border since the exile crisis in 2015. “The number of people illegally entering Germany has fallen. besides due to the fact that we introduced border controls and now at the beginning of this week we decided to extend them to all borders Germany for as long as possible. We have achieved noticeable results and we will not get off this effective road – he argued in the Bundestag Olaf Scholz. The Schengen area is falling apart. TVN24 quoted BBC talker Geert Wilders, head of the far right Freedom organization in the Netherlands: “If Germany can do so, why can’t we? As for me, the sooner the better.” PVV ranked first in last year's elections in the Netherlands and is now part of the government. The diary of “Die Welt” warns that the German Government's decision to introduce controls at all state borders and CDU opposition plans to return even those refugees who ask for asylum threatens with serious conflict with Poland. Donald Tusk found our western neighbors' decision totally unacceptable. He announced that he would search consultations with another countries affected by German decisions.
– In my conversation with Chancellor Scholz, I stressed that the only way to halt illegal migration is to effectively control the external borders of the European Union. Not internal. Polish position on the substance remains unchanged – he wrote Donald Tusk (x.com/ donaldtusk).
– Your problem is that nothing comes from this conversation and the Chancellor The German will do what he thinks he will. Frontex and Europol are inefficient, as late confirmed in the European Parliament by the directors of these institutions, replied to the entry of Mr Tusk MEP Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik (x.com/EwaZajaczkowska).
– organization capacity can be improved. Your problem is that nobody wants to talk to you due to the fact that you mean nothing, so you can't change anything. And you are not even able to realize that your populist mouths have the other effect – he referred to Zajączkowska-Hernik's comment Jarott (x.com/Jarothz).
– So Germany, who wanted to uphold compliance in the EU, restores border control for six months and does nothing about the Schengen area, 1 of the most crucial achievements of European integration? – was surprised. Jacek Nizinkiewicz (x.com/JNizinkiewicz).
– Germany announces the restoration of border control. This is expected to improve the well-being of the Germans themselves, alternatively than reduce the influx of migrants, due to the fact that those who are in the EU illegally will freely pass without utilizing roads or highways," he commented. Arek author (x.com/archive).
– Nothing happens without a reason. They most likely found that besides many immigrants were coming in uncontrollablely in their country who applied for social aid. Somehow, this state must defend itself, since allies liable for protecting borders do not do so with due care," he commented Rob Ostropolski (x.com/robots).
– It's good to make a problem, moralize, close the door, and give work to others. For years they turned this spiral unreflexively, now let them take them or send them back where they came from and not turn Europe into slums – he wrote Fly Butterfly (Gazeta.pl).
– It was the Lord who in 2021 ate on those who defended these external borders. It was your organization that held demonstrations on the border and, after all, you demanded engineers in Poland. Now? Now you can compose and talk. The Germans will do what they want due to the fact that they can. We are not, for we have the Lord, he stings Konrad Berkovich (x.com/ KonradBerkowicz).
"The electoral defeats of the German ruling camp should not destruct the Schengen area and the freedom of movement of EU citizens, including Poles", he commented Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (https://x. com/BartSienkiewicz).
– global treaties request to be changed and asylum law modernised, Geneva conventions adapted to a dynamically changing world, not stuck in the Stone Age and pretend that it is OK. The EU as a full should say old, naive treaties and the associate States should re-establish them, in terms of their own needs, proposed Djenn (Gazeta.pl).
