SLUBICE, Poland — Poland reinstated border controls on Monday with neighboring Germany and Lithuania following similar German restrictions imposed earlier this year aimed at discouraging asylum-seekers.

Poland introduced temporary controls on its borders with Germany and Lithuania on Monday in an effort to stem what the government says is an increasing number of undocumented migrants crossing from the north and west.

Those measures that are not characteristic of the European Union and which (…) represent a temporary capitulation to the problem,' says Gitanas Nauseda - Anadolu Ajansı