Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) has reservations about the proposal for temporary border controls on the German-Polish border because of the growing number of unauthorized entries by refugees via Belarus.
"Whether the capacities of the federal police are sufficient to control several hundred kilometers of the border with Poland and whether the effort is worthwhile can only be decided by the federal government," said Stübgen on Monday of the German press agency.
Potsdam - “I have my doubts that temporary border controls will solve the problem and warn of an escalation spiral on the German-Polish border.
Border controls or even border closings would put an enormous strain on daily life for tens of thousands of Germans and Poles in the border region. ”The cause of the refugees is in Minsk, the solution in Moscow.
The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, urges the introduction of temporary controls on the border with Poland.
He justified this in a letter to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) with an "explosive" increase in the number of apprehensions and the health risk for employees of the Federal Police, as the "Bild" newspaper reported.
The chairman of the interior committee in the Brandenburg state parliament, Andreas Büttner, also rejected the proposal after temporary controls at the border with Poland.
"From my point of view that would be the completely wrong way," said the politician of the left, who is a police officer by profession.
"The elimination of border controls is one of the fundamental freedoms of the European Union."
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