Germany closed some of its borders with the Czech Republic and the Tyrol region in Austria on Sunday February 14. The measure, put in place to avoid a new wave of Covid-19 contamination from the British and South African variants of the virus, arouses opposition from the French government.
Germany closed some of its borders with the Czech Republic and Austrian Tyrol on Sunday February 14, in an attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19. “People who are not among the few permitted exceptions will not be able to enter” on German territory, Home Minister Horst Seehofer warned in the Sunday edition of the daily. image.
A large system of a thousand police officers is mobilized to ensure these checks. However, exceptions are possible: Germans, people residing in the country as well as cross-border workers and professions considered strategic, such as freight transport, can cross the border provided they can present a very recent negative PCR test for the coronavirus.
Paris opposes closures
Monday February 15, the reaction of the French government was not long in coming: Paris “does not want Germany to completely close the border” with France, declared the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune . The German government has hinted that it could do the same with France in the coming days, due to the health situation in the French department of Moselle where there is a progression of the South African variant, which is very contagious.
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“If Germany were to restrict further traffic” to France, “I would like us to define together the widest possible exceptions. We have two major concerns: road transport (…) and frontier workers. For these people, it is a question of the ability to work and earn a living, “insisted the Secretary of State, who is due to meet this Monday with the three minister-presidents of the German regions bordering France. .
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