Border checks have resumed on the 68-metre bridge Residents on either side of a long-dormant Polish-German border are reckoning with fresh border checks as anti-immigrant division rears its head in central Europe. The boundary between the Polish and German towns of Gubin and Guben was drawn along the river Neisse in 1945, splitting the former German municipality in two. In the decades since, the border had fallen into disuse, with residents on both sides freely crossing the 68-metre bridge to travel to school and work. Tensions between the two settlements have escalated alongside anti-immigration sentiment on the continent, however, with...