Checks on German land borders with France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium will start in Monday September 16 and will last for at least half a year. This was announced by the Minister of Interior Nancy Faeser.
“This means that Germany will have controls on its borders with all neighbors. There is already an announcement that the controls introduced Poland until December 15, will also be extended,” he said. Thomas Lejmancorrespondent for Interia and Polsat News in Germany.
Germany Returns to Border Controls, Austria Responds
The government in Berlin he was supposed to consult his steps with the main opposition party CDU. The authorities, introducing controlthey want to limit uncontrolled migration after the local public was concerned about the knife attack SolingenAt the end of August, a man injured people there Syria.
Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Austria Gerhard Karner said on Monday that his country would not take back any migrants turned away by Germany at the border. – There is no room to maneuver here. That is the law. I have instructed the head of the federal police to he didn't allow for any returns – he stated in the columns of “Bild”.
Germany has a land border that is over 3700 km from Denmark, Netherlands, BelgiumLuxembourg, FranceSwitzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and PolandLast year, the country's authorities announced tightening controls at its land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland in response to a sharp increase in asylum applications.
Schengen Area and Border Controls. When Can They Be Resumed?
In the last elections in the state Thuringia the extremely anti-immigrant party turned out to be the winner AfD. Furthermore, in Saxony it came second, confirming the mood prevailing in parts of Germany.
Zone Schengenwhich includes 25 of the 27 European Union member states and several other countries, allows free travel between them without border controls. However, members may reintroduce controls at some internal borders in exceptional circumstancesand several of them did so during the pandemic COVID-19 or after terrorist attacks.
Sources: Interia, Reuters
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