In the transition period after the election, major political decisions are difficult.
This is probably one of the reasons why Interior Minister Seehofer does not want to make a solitary decision on the situation on the border with Poland.
Berlin - Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to bring up the increased number of unauthorized entries across the Polish-German border in the cabinet.
The minister wants to propose measures at the meeting on Wednesday how to deal with the situation, said the spokesman for the ministry, Steve Alter, on Monday on request.
The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, urges the introduction of temporary controls on the border with Poland. Teggatz justified this in a letter to Seehofer with the health risk for the employees of the Federal Police, as reported by "Bild". The Police Union (GdP) does not believe in this idea at the moment.
"For several months, the number of apprehensions has increased almost explosively," the newspaper quoted from the letter from the Federal Police Union. Only with the introduction of temporary border controls could the federal government prevent a "collapse" at the borders like in 2015. Teggatz continued: “Our colleagues are also exposed to a significant health risk, as SARS COV-2 infections are still very high, especially in the migrants' countries of origin (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.) and are only very rarely recorded by the authorities. "Hygiene regulations as are common in Germany and Europe would of course not be adhered to in the" smuggling process ".
The governments in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are accusing the Belarusian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, of bringing migrants and refugees from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.
Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU - in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country.
Since then, reports of attempted irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border have increased.
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The Saxon Refugee Council has complained about a lack of empathy for those seeking protection who are currently increasingly coming to Germany across the border from Belarus and Poland.
This mainly affects people from Iraq and Syria.
"The life-threatening everyday life of two destroyed countries - like the disaster in Afghanistan - seems to have been dealt with, the need for support for people plagued by conflict fades into the background," said Dave Schmidtke from the Refugee Council in Dresden on Friday.
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Tents and containers are ready.
The atmosphere on the site is calm.
Laundry dries on fences.
Children play.
What the refugees experienced on their way before they landed in Eisenhüttenstadt can only be guessed at.
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"We currently see no reason for border controls," said the chairman of the Federal Police District of the Police Union (GdP), Andreas Roßkopf, the German Press Agency.
"Yes, there must be a reaction, but we prefer an intensification of the border search," he added.
The current situation in terms of the number of arriving asylum seekers is not comparable with the situation in autumn 2015.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior is still alarmed.
And the Federal Foreign Office is also trying to get states like Iraq and Jordan to stop flights to Minsk.
dpa