00:00Poland will temporarily introduce border controls with Germany and Lithuania.
00:07The country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the measures were necessary
00:11to reduce the uncontrolled flow of migrants across the border.
00:15His government has been under pressure from nationalist opposition parties
00:19over irregular migrants being returned to Poland from Germany.
00:23The decision comes after new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
00:27made tougher migration policy a pillar of his election campaign in February.
00:32With the Polish government we are talking about joint controls
00:37in the same border border, both on the German side as on the Polish side.
00:42I can only say that there is both between the government-chefs,
00:46also between Donald Tusk and me, as well as between the Prime Minister
00:50a very enge, very collegial, friendly cooperation,
00:54because we want to solve a joint problem together.
00:58Tusk said he had spoken to Merz on several occasions
01:01and told him that Poland's patience on the issue was quote-unquote
01:04running out.
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