00:00Less than a day after Germany's Friedrich Mertz's chancellorship was approved by the
00:07Bundestag, he's already making his first state visits. The German leader has arrived in the
00:12Polish capital Warsaw, where he's set to hold talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
00:17Mertz and Tusk are expected to discuss current EU and international agendas in security and
00:21defense issues. They're also expected to discuss their respective bilateral ties and explore ways
00:27to further boost their cooperation across various fields. Mertz stressed the importance of ensuring
00:33the 27-member bloc's border security and vowed to work on tightening its migration policies.
00:57Migration was one of the most important topics in the German federal elections this year.
01:17In his campaign, Mertz had vowed to take a more hard-line stance
01:21and crackdown on illegal migration in both Germany and the EU.
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