Speaking at the Border Guard Training Centre in Otwock on 15 May 2026, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Poland had recorded no successful illegal entries from Belarus in the first quarter of the year. Flanked by Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński and Border Guard chief Gen. Robert Bagan, the premier credited a €350-million programme of electronic surveillance towers, thermal-imaging drones and a 186-km steel barrier completed in late 2025. Officials confirmed that the eastern frontier is now fully integrated with the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) and will connect to Eurodac 2.0 next month, creating what Tusk called “Europe’s most advanced biometric perimeter.” According to Border Guard figures, attempted crossings fell 83 % year-on-year, with all detected entrants intercepted within the immediate border zone and returned under existing procedures.
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For travelers, employers and mobility planners trying to keep pace with Poland’s fast-changing border regime, VisaHQ offers end-to-end support—from arranging biometric appointments to securing Schengen work and visitor visas. Its online portal (https://www.visahq.com/poland/) centralizes the latest regulatory updates and allows users to track applications in real time, simplifying compliance even as controls tighten along routes such as the Belarus frontier.
The briefing signals that Warsaw intends to keep temporary internal Schengen checks at the German and Lithuanian borders in place until at least October 2026, despite EU pressure to restore free movement. Kierwiński argued that tight external and internal controls are two sides of the same coin and will remain until neighbouring states adopt comparable measures. For businesses the headline of ‘zero crossings’ may look remote, yet it underscores a compliance environment in which document checks—particularly for road freight drivers and posted workers—are likely to stay intense. Mobility managers should anticipate continued police spot-checks on company coaches and vans near the German frontier and factor possible delays into routing and duty-of-care briefings. Longer term, Poland’s success could influence Schengen-wide debates on funding more physical barriers and harmonising returns policy, a development that would raise the bar for companies moving talent across multiple EU borders.
For travelers, employers and mobility planners trying to keep pace with Poland’s fast-changing border regime, VisaHQ offers end-to-end support—from arranging biometric appointments to securing Schengen work and visitor visas. Its online portal (https://www.visahq.com/poland/) centralizes the latest regulatory updates and allows users to track applications in real time, simplifying compliance even as controls tighten along routes such as the Belarus frontier.
The briefing signals that Warsaw intends to keep temporary internal Schengen checks at the German and Lithuanian borders in place until at least October 2026, despite EU pressure to restore free movement. Kierwiński argued that tight external and internal controls are two sides of the same coin and will remain until neighbouring states adopt comparable measures. For businesses the headline of ‘zero crossings’ may look remote, yet it underscores a compliance environment in which document checks—particularly for road freight drivers and posted workers—are likely to stay intense. Mobility managers should anticipate continued police spot-checks on company coaches and vans near the German frontier and factor possible delays into routing and duty-of-care briefings. Longer term, Poland’s success could influence Schengen-wide debates on funding more physical barriers and harmonising returns policy, a development that would raise the bar for companies moving talent across multiple EU borders.
