


Germany’s border controls are annoying the neighbours
Especially the Poles
“WHAT CAN you do?” shrugs Ryszard Noryskiewicz, zipping along the A12 motorway in his old Chrysler on a bright spring morning. “The Germans are going to do what they do.” Mr Noryskiewicz, a Berliner originally from Warsaw, has been driving back and forth between his two countries since the early 1980s. In 2007 Poland’s accession to the eu’s Schengen passport-free zone changed everything. What had been a fraught border crossing marked by intrusive inspections and suspicious guards became as simple as slipping from Berlin into Brandenburg.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Outrage on the Oder”

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