Merz’s Plans to Tighten Border Checks Face Pushback in Warsaw

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pushed back against plans by Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz to tighten border controls with its European Union neighbors, saying the focus should rather be on reinforcing the bloc’s outside frontier.

In a joint news conference with Merz in Warsaw, Tusk said his country won’t accept Berlin sending back migrants and stressed it was in the interest of both Poland and Germany that the EU’s passport-free Schengen area remained intact.