Poland to retain border buffer zone
China DailyPolish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Gdansk, Poland Sept 1, 2024. Poland's Interior Ministry has announced that the country will extend the deployment of a buffer zone it introduced on its border with Belarus earlier in the summer, by another 90 days. Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said the zone had "brought concrete, positive results", and led to a 64-percent fall in attempted illegal border crossings. The latest news, relating to Poland's eastern border, comes at the same time as Germany has announced it is tightening entry points with neighboring countries, including Poland, in its west, a move that has upset Poland's Prime Minster Donald Tusk. Germany and its neighboring countries are part of the Schengen area allowing borderless travel, but European Union rules permit temporary border controls "as a last resort, external measure, in exceptional situations" for up to six months.
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