German border plan to stop ‘irregular migration’ unacceptable, says Tusk

Polish PM calls for urgent consultations with European neighbours over controls he says will break European law

The Polish government is accusing Germany of acting unilaterally and unfairly over its unacceptable" plans to introduce temporary controls into in the passport-free Schengen zone at all the country's nine land borders, in what Warsaw says is a contravention of European law.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, said Germany had introduced a de facto suspension of the Schengen agreement on a large scale" after the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, announced Berlin's decision to confront what she called irregular migration" by introducing spot controls along Germany's 2,300-mile (3,700km) frontier after a recent spate of suspected Islamist attacks.