The decision by Olaf Scholz's government to reimpose checks at Germany's frontiers is chilling for those of us born behind the iron curtain When we were teenagers in Poland, it was the end of the 1990s and by then we had already acquired the freedom to travel to Paris or London to go to language school and work. To afford this, we travelled by shabby, worn-out buses. It took dozens of hours, and the journey was always further prolonged by a stop of several hours at the Polish-German border. The ...
To Poles, Germany's border clampdown feels like the gates of Europe slamming shut again
The Guardian - 26 Sep 2024 08:00
The decision by Olaf Scholz's government to reimpose checks at Germany's frontiers is chilling for those of us born behind the iron curtain When we were teenagers in Poland, it was the end of the 1990s and by then we had already acquired the freedom to travel to Paris or London to go to language school and work. To afford this, we travelled by shabby, worn-out buses. It took dozens of hours, and the journey was always further prolonged by a stop of several hours at the Polish-German border. The ...
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