Poland on Wednesday said it would extend temporary checks along its borders with Germany and Lithuania by a further six months, until April 4th next year.
Poland's right-wing nationalist president Karol Nawrocki visits Paris and Berlin on Tuesday, seeking help to shore up his country's eastern defences in the wake of a major Russian drone incursion.
Poland has extended temporary controls on the border with its EU neighbours Germany and Lithuania, Poland's Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said on Sunday, as the government cracks down on irregular migrants.
Poland reimposed checks on its borders with EU neighbours Germany and Lithuania on Monday in a bid to crack down on irregular migration amid surging anti-immigrant sentiment creating political pressure in Berlin and Warsaw.
Germany's strict new border policy is bringing back memories of separation on the frontier with Poland, as Chancellor Friedrich Merz's new government seeks to implement a promised crackdown on irregular migration.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has met with Warsaw Uprising veterans and asked for their "forgiveness" during a visit to Poland on the eve of the revolt's 80th anniversary.
Poland's prime minister has demanded Germany explain an "unacceptable" incident in which German police reportedly drove a family of migrants across the border and abandoned them on Polish soil.
The European Union and Germany on Wednesday pressed the Polish government to clear up "serious" visa fraud allegations that could impact its neighbours in the bloc.
Germany on Tuesday announced plans to establish a memorial in Berlin to the Polish victims of the Nazis, almost 84 years after Adolf Hitler launched the invasion of Poland.
Germany's president on Wednesday sought pardon for his nation's World War II crimes in comments on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary in Poland's capital.
Poland's defence minister has asked Germany to ship a Patriot surface-to-air missile defence system intended for Poland to Ukraine instead to help defend itself against Russia.
Germany said Wednesday it could send its own warplanes to support patrols over Poland following a deadly rocket strike in a village close to the border with Ukraine.