Poland has temporarily reinstated internal controls at 13 checkpoints on its border with Lithuania in response to increased secondary irregular migration via Belarus, LRT reports. Both Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service (VSAT) and the Lithuanian National Road Carriers Association (LINAVA) said that there were no traffic jams on the border on the first day of the temporary checks. Meanwhile, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda stated that the border checks represented a “capitulation to the problem” of irregular migration, BNS reported. He stressed that internal controls within the Schengen Area must remain temporary. Chief presidential adviser Frederikas Jansonas argued that the border checks were a fake solution to “a problem that does not exist,” BNS reported. However, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said that the border checks would definitely continue for longer than 30 days, BNS reported. He insisted that the controls should continue for “as long as the reasons for their introduction remain.”
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