The German government has announced the temporary introduction of controls at all land borders in order to “reduce irregular migration and improve internal security” from 16 September.
He Home Office Germano announced that he has notified the European Commission (CE) its intention to introduce temporary border controls with France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium y Denmark over the next six months, which will be added to those already existing in the border areas with Swiss, Austria, Czech Republic y Poland.
Minister of the Interior: “We are strengthening our internal security”
“We are strengthening our internal security and maintaining our tough course against illegal immigration,” said the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeserin an appearance in Berlin in which he announced the new controls.
The Social Democrat minister stressed that this measure includes the possibility of rejecting at the border migrants who are apprehended with false documentation or who do not have visas that allow them to enter Germany.
Temporary controls since 2003
Since October 2023, when temporary border controls were introduced with Poland, Czech Republic, Austria y Swiss30,000 people trying to enter illegally from those countries have already been turned away, he said.
Phases He clarified that at the moment the German police can only turn away at the border those individuals who do not submit an asylum application.
However, he said his ministry had been studying how to carry out “mass rejections” in the future and had found a legally sound formula that he would present on Tuesday at a meeting with the opposition and regional governments.
Migration returns to German politics
Since a suspected jihadist killed three people in a knife attack last month in western Germanymigration is once again one of the issues at the top of the political agenda in Germany.
The Interior Ministry then presented a package of measures to tighten gun rights, reduce benefits for asylum seekers already registered in other countries and facilitate the deportation of violent criminals, which was approved by the Council of Ministers on Monday.
The Christian Democratic opposition has meanwhile offered the coalition government of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals a state pact on migration, on condition that asylum seekers will also be turned away at Germany’s borders in future.
The far right rises
In the regional elections of the federal states of Sajonia y Thuringia On September 1, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party that has made tougher immigration policy a pillar of its political programme, came in first and second respectively, with a third of the votes.
It is also expected to perform well in the ‘Land‘ of Brandenburgwhere voting will take place on September 22.
Controls in force until November 1
Temporary controls at the border with Austria will be in force until November 1 and at the borders with Swiss, Czech Republic y Poland until December 15, although the Home Office He indicated that these measures should also be extended to bring them into line with the rest of the borders. EFE
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