Czechia, Poland Call On EU to Strengthen Border Protection Against Illegal Migrants Instead of Moving Them 'Back and Forth' Across Europe

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk have said that the European Union should do more to combat illegal migration. This is reported by ABC News.

After meeting with his Polish counterpart in Prague, Fiala said they agreed on the need to ‘do more’ to combat illegal migration.

Fiala said that the asylum reforms approved by EU countries in May are insufficient and should be more stringent. ‘We also have a negative attitude towards the reintroduction of long-term border checks at the internal borders of the European Union,’ he said.

Tusk agreed with him. ‘The EU's task is to protect its external borders and minimise illegal migration, not to create internal borders or to look for mechanisms to move groups of illegal migrants back and forth in Europe,’ he said.

After Poland faced a new wave of illegal migration from Belarus, at the last EU leaders' summit in June, Poland, along with the Baltic states, also called for military border reinforcement funded by the EU.

According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, EU-funded border protection would mean ‘refinancing national defence efforts through European financial channels’.

Germany has also intensified discussions on stricter migration policy and simplified deportations following the high-profile terrorist attack in Solingen last month. Against this background, the German government agreed on a package of measures on migration and asylum.