Germany already had temporary border controls with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Switzerland. However, starting on September 16, the border controls extended to France, Belgium ...

Far-right parties are making significant strides in Austria and Germany, pulling EU policies in a rightward direction.

Germany has also controlled the border with its southern neighbor Austria since 2015 with the explanation that it wants to reduce the number of asylum seekers entering the country and the risk of ...

At present, eight member states – Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, France and Norway – are conducting border checks, for reasons ranging from “irregular migration”, a ...

These are now the new realities on all of Germany’s land borders ... The move extends the controls already in place at the borders with Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland ...

Germany already has controls at its eastern and southern borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Austria, primarily spot checks on roads and in trains. Similar measures will be ...

They are initially scheduled to last for six months. These new checks expand an existing system of mobile border controls that Germany has been using at its borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, ...

Although Germany is part of the passport-free Schengen Zone, it launched border checks with Austria in 2015 during the European migration crisis. In October 2023, Chancellor Olaf Scholz made it clear ...

The controls slowed traffic, but some people voiced support. Elle Rendigs, 70, who was headed from Germany to the French city of Strasbourg, said she hoped the stepped-up policing would bring "a bit ...