– The current situation forces Poland to immediately undertake further projects that significantly affect the level of protection of the state border, the external border of the European Union, said Deputy Minister Maciej Wąsik. The Deputy Minister of the Interior took part in today's (26 October) joint meeting of the Committee on Local Self-Government and State Administration and the Committee on Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Petitions of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. The committees dealt with consideration of the Act on the construction of state border security installations.

Today (22 October), Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki met with Monique Pariat, Director General of the European Commission's Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs. The meeting concerned the situation on the Poland-Belarus section of the external border of the European Union.

On Thursday (14 October), the Sejm passed a bill on the construction of state border security installations. The bill will now go to the Senate for consideration.

On Friday (8 October), a meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union (JHA) was held in Luxembourg. Bartosz Grodecki, Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration, represented Poland.

‘We have decided to build a permanent barrier along the Polish-Belarusian border. The experience of other countries affected by the migrant crisis shows that this is the only effective method’, said Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. On Thursday (7 October), an away meeting of the National Security and Defence Affairs Committee was held, which focussed on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border.

Today (6th October), Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki met with Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director-General at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs. The meeting concerned the situation at the EU's external border with Belarus. At the same time, an expert meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration and the European Commission.

Today (4 October), Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki and Frontex Executive Director, Fabrice Leggeri visited the Poland-Belarus border. Brigadier General Grzegorz Niemiec, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Border Guard, also attended the visit.

Today (30 September), Minister Mariusz Kaminski met with Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, to discuss the crisis caused by Belarus' hybrid actions against the EU Member States, primarily Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. In these actions, the Belarusian regime uses migrants instrumentally to destabilise and exert political pressure on these countries.

Yesterday (29 September) Poland submitted to the European Court of Human Rights its position on the ECHR’s ordering on 27 September of further interim measures in the case of R.A. and Others v. Poland.

Bartosz Grodecki, undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Interior and Administration, and Arnoldas Abramavičius, Deputy Minister of the Interior of Lithuania, chaired the 20th anniversary meeting of the Polish-Lithuanian Intergovernmental Commission on Cross-Border Cooperation. The meeting was held on 23-24 September in Vilnius.