Germany’s Scholz Threatens Poland With Border Checks Over Visas
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A German-Polish border crossing at Slubice, Poland.
Photographer: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance/Getty Images
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Poland to investigate reports that officials issued hundreds of thousands of illegal work visas and threatened to restore controls at the Polish border.
“I don’t want Poland just to wave through” migrants, Scholz said at a Social Democratic campaign event in Nuremberg. “Depending on the situation, we may have to take additional measures at our borders, for instance at that one.”