Germany’s Imposition of Old-Fashioned Border Checks Begets an Uproar Over Europe’s Migrant Crisis

Now Greece joins the alarum in Poland over Europe’s new border checks.

Thomas Banneyer/dpa via AP
Germany Chancellor Scholz lays a flower at a church, near the scene of a knife attack, at Solingen, Germany, August 26, 2024. Thomas Banneyer/dpa via AP

ATHENS — If Poland’s recent alarum over Germany’s announcement that it will start new checks at its border crossings strikes some as slightly off key, Greece in a roundabout way has just offered a clue why. It comes as more politicians from Germany’s increasingly pressured center sound off in frustration with years of failed liberal policies on immigration and asylum for refugees. 

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