Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government has stepped up border control with Germany and Lithuania after Poland became a transit country along a new migration route from Baltic nations towards Germany.
Poland has extended temporary checks along the border with Germany and Lithuania, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski announced on August 3.
The measure aims to strengthen the fight against irregular immigration, states the government.
The minister noted that the relevant regulations were "adopted and sent to the European Commission as notification last Friday (August 1)."
Kierwinski was speaking during a meeting with regional governors and underscored that the checks, reintroduced last month after Germany took similar measures to stop irregular migrants, have been extended until October 4 at least, so for a further 60 days.
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Poland transit nation between Baltics and Germany
The minister then noted that the strengthening of checks and barriers along Poland's border with Russia and Belarus had helped to prevent unauthorized crossings and that it is now "essential" to block the migration route that has been formed through Latvia and Lithuanian on to Poland and then Germany.
Over 493,000 people that crossed the borders between Poland, Germany, and Lithuania were checked by Polish border guards between July 7 and August 2, their chief Robert Bagan said.
The Polish authorities noted that hundreds of people, mainly from the Middle East, cross Baltic states from Belarus every month, many of them hoping to reach Germany.
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