Germany is expanding border controls with all nine of its neighbouring countries in an attempt to curb irregular migration. The steps come in response to rising support for the far-right anti-immigration Alternative for Germany following a series of d…
The reintroduction of border controls in Germany, without consultation, shows European disunity. The difficult issue of migration calls for responses other than each country improvising and going it alone within the European Union.
Germany has decided to re-establish border controls and has deported Afghan immigrants. While some EU member states have criticized it for going it alone, supporters of the ‘Fortress Europe’ idea have welcomed the policy change.
Hungarian prime minister has a message for Olaf Scholz: “Welcome to the club.”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis criticised Germanyโs decision to introduce controls at its borders saying such a move would endanger Schengen and hinted that Berlinโs current social policies may be to blame for attracting migrants.
Poland will start consultations with other EU countries bordering Germany to formulate a response to Germany’s decision to introduce border controls, the Polish Interior Ministry confirmed to Euractiv.pl.
Germany’s decision to tighten border controls drew praise from Italian Undersecretary of State for the Interior Wanda Ferro, who pointed to the left-wing parties in Europe aligning with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on migration.
Poland has deemed Germany’s decision to implement border controls ‘unacceptable,’ while Austria has announced that it will not accept any migrants who are turned back.
“In the 1980s, we had to get off the bus and they checked all our passports,” said one Belgian citizen. “We’re not going back to that time, are we?”
Germany is determined to move ahead with border controls despite backlash from EU partners, chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed on Wednesday, adding that the European โdispute is necessary.โ
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s move to establish new border controls risks generating an EU rift.
Poland’s prime minister says Berlin’s decision to impose controls on all land borders is unacceptable.
Poland’s prime minister says Berlin’s decision to impose controls on all land borders is unacceptable.
Germany is set to impose stricter border controls with several neighbouring countries starting next week, following deadly migrant attacks that fueled far-right gains in recent state elections.
Berlin’s decision is a “de facto suspension of the Schengen Agreement on a large scale,” Polish PM says.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday (10 September) sharply criticised Germany’s decision to tighten controls on all its borders, including the one it shares with Poland.
Critics say tightened land border checks a โtransparentโ bid to appease far right that breaches free movement rightsGermanyโs decision to tighten controls at every one of its land borders seems driven chiefly by politics, is difficult to justify in law…
New controls at German land borders can be seen as a reaction to the far-right party AfD’s electoral success rather than a response to recent terrorist attacks and could be dangerous for European cohesion, leading to a breakdown in the Schengen system,…
It comes amid rising popularity for the anti-immigration AfD in the wake of the Solingen attack.
The interior ministry said Monday that it was applying temporary controls to Germany’s land borders to limit migration and ward against ‘Islamist terrorism.’
German police will carry out checks on the borders with all nine neighboring countries.
The nearly 40-year-old treaty that established the European Union’s border-free travel zone is under strain as countries like Austria, France, and Germany increasingly defy its rules.
As Europe grapples with a resurgence of border controls, an updated Schengen legal framework and political support from affected countries could halt what appears to be the gradual erosion of the free travel zone.
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz urged the government to enforce the Dublin Regulation after meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday (27 August) and suggested declaring a state of national emergency if the rules cannot be enforced.
The spectre of additional border controls looms over the Schengen Area after a deadly attack in Solingen, Germany.
As pressure grows in Berlin to reintroduce checks on all German borders, its neighbouring EU countries are warning the move could lead to a domino effect that could unravel the border-free Schengen area.
Europeโs free-travel zone, otherwise known as the Schengen Area, is increasingly being punctured by border controls as many EU countries opt to tighten their internal borders.
Officials aim to limit attacks from โSwedish child soldiersโ hired by Danish gangs
The new U.K. prime minister has paid his first visit Northern Irelandโs cross-community government in Belfast.
Five months before the US election, radical right parties are expected to make major gains in the EU election
A new deal would open Gibraltarโs border with Spain, gateway to the EUโs entire Schengen area.
Watchdog says says repeated delays have caused unnecessary costs and strategy lacks a โclear timetableโThe government expects to have spent at least ยฃ4.7bn on introducing post-Brexit border controls, which have been repeatedly hit by delays, the public…
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of LondonPhoto credit: BlueMars, via Wikimedia CommonsMy European Policy Analysis report on the amendments to the
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Britain launched physical checks on fresh food products imported from the European Union on Tuesday (30 April) some three years after it left the bloc’s single market and eight years after it voted to leave the EU.
Checks on food arriving at Dover will be carried out on the outskirts of Ashford
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New post-Brexit border checks โset to zeroโ to avoid what Defra calls risk of serious disruptionThe UK government has reportedly told port health authorities it will not โturn onโ health and safety checks for EU imports as new post-Brexit border contro…
Europeans give a thumbs down to the European Union’s efforts to control irregular migration and demand stronger border controls.
UK PM Sunak has pledged to โstop the boatsโ from crossing the Channel and said he would pay millions of pounds to France for help.
Spanish farmers on Wednesday (21 February) staged their biggest rally yet since protests began two weeks ago, as the ruling Socialist party and the centre-right opposition clashed in parliament over border controls and โmirror clausesโ in EU trade deal…
Before officially joining the French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN), former Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri had been in contact with the right-wing Les Rรฉpublicains (LR) party “for several months”, a person close to the delegation in the EU P…
Germany said Wednesday (14 February) it would probably prolong the checks on its eastern border it launched last autumn to curb migration, and extend the controls to all borders when it hosts the Euro 2024 football tournament.
Facilities at St Pancras too โinadequateโ to process new checks without โhour-long queuesโ at peak times, says operator HS1Eurostar could be forced to limit passenger numbers travelling from St Pancras each day under post-Brexit plans to bring in biome…
Today is first stage in a series of changes likely to raise costs for businesses and consumersToday will bring the first stage in new, wide-ranging Brexit border controls on the import of plants, animals and food to the UK from the European Union.The c…
The UK will finally roll out post-Brexit border checks Wednesday (30 January) on food, plant and animal products imported from the EU, fanning fears of more price hikes, empty shelves and even Valentine’s Day flower shortages.
New EU entry-exit system could lead to gridlocked roads if scheme goes ahead as planned, MPs hearTourists heading to Europe could face waits of up to 14 hours at border controls under a scheme to be launched in October, MPs have been told.The Port of D…
Many travellers are opting to take a plane rather than train between London and Paris despite climate concerns and the Eurostar rail service connecting the two capitals in just over two hours.
The price of the Toriesโ new border regime beggars belief. In a cost of living crisis, itโs a bill we canโt affordThe government is planning to increase the cost of doing business in Britain by a total of ยฃ330m a year.From the end of this month and aga…
The target date of January 1, 2025, is ‘not sacred,’ Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov says.
Trade association says exporters are not ready and warns of disruption for Valentineโs Day and Motherโs DayBusiness live โ latest updatesDutch flower growers have called on the UK government to delay post-Brexit border controls on plants and food set t…
Controls at sea and air borders with Romania and Bulgaria to be lifted as of March 31.
Eurostar and Eurotunnel services resume on Friday but drivers face 60-minute queue for French border controlsChristmas getaway disruption was continuing on Friday with long queues for cross-Channel journeys, motorway closures and train cancellations on…
In todayโs edition of the Capitals, find out more about โโGermany’s plan to continue border controls until migratory pressure falls, Rome rejecting the European Stability Mechanism treaty, and so much more.
The German government will keep border controls in place with its European neighbours so long as the number of refugees arriving stays high, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told RND on Thursday.
The European Union agreed on Wednesday on new rules to handle irregular arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants, a deal hailed as a breakthrough after almost a decade of bitter feuds on the issue. “The content of this compromise today paves the way fo…
Measures seek to combat smuggling and limit irregular migration.
Vienna proposes easier air travel in the EU for Bulgarians and Romanians, according to media reports.
Evidence from the European Parliament’s graft investigation provides a record of more than 300 alleged attempts to manipulate EU democracy.
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Czechia and Slovakia wanting Germany and Austria to join their next Visegrad summit to discuss border controls, backlash from all sides regarding the Rome-Tirana migrant management deal, and so mu…
Germany and Austria should be invited to the upcoming Visegrad Group summit at the end of November to discuss internal border controls and irregular migration, Czech Interior Minister Vรญt Rakuลกan (STAN) and his newly appointed Slovak counterpart Matรบลก …
A new plan to curb the influx of asylum seekers shows how Germanyโs chancellor and his allies are grasping at straws.
Opposition chief slams frontier move as ‘expensive theater.’
Most of the country’s EU neighbours have reimposed border controls with Hungary — with both Slovakia and Slovenia taking the exceptional measure in the last 10 days — as the number of migrants passing through the country has risen sharply.
In todayโs edition of the Capitals, find out more about Weber slamming new border controls, the Czech prime minister standing in firm support of Ursula von der Leyen’s pro-Israel stance, and so much more.
Several EU countries, including Germany and Italy, have recently introduced temporary border controls to curb irregular migration in a blow to the Schengen area, but EU centre-right (EPP) leader Manfred Weber has limited faith in it and believes that p…
A new timeline for the EU’s post-Brexit Entry/Exit System (EES) has officially been endorsed.
Italy reinstated border controls with Slovenia as part of its strategy to improve home security against threats of terrorist attacks in Europe, the government said on Wednesday (18 October).
After two Swedes were shot dead in Brussels, EU leaders call for better border security and migrant-return policies.
The EU bloc should tighten border controls and internal security, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in response to Mondayโs terrorist attack in Brussels, in which a gunman claiming allegiance to IS shot dead two Swedes, presumably in response…
Germany will introduce controls at its border with Switzerland following pressure to reduce irregular migration flows. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD/S&D) also promised to introduce stationary border controls at the border with Poland and the …
The measures are an effort to ‘step up the fight against smuggling and limit irregular migration,’ interior ministry says.
The intolerably cruel crackdown on irregular migrants in Tunisia is an indictment of a deal struck with a dictatorial regimeAt last monthโs Venice film festival, a fictional portrayal of African migrants seeking to reach Europe received widespread accl…
Czechia is introducing random checks at its border with Slovakia; however, it is not the number of migrants behind the decision, but rather the decision of the Polish government, which has triggered a domino effect in the Central European region….
In todayโs newsletter: Eleven people have died since the start of September in a spate of shootings and bombings โ this is how the country is managingโข Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGod morgon. The prime minister of Sweden is call…
The opposition hopes the massive turnout will change its fortunes going into the October 15 election, but its supporters are tense.
Labourโs Stella Creasy elicits confirmation of higher charges to firms which some say risk further fuelling food inflationThe government has admitted it will cost businesses ยฃ330m each year in additional charges when new post-Brexit border controls on …
Manfred Weber puts pressure on Germany as tension grows over border controls between EU states.
Germanyโs interior ministry is set to reinstate border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic to crack down on irregular migration, despite strong opposition from within the coalition government and trade unions, who have called the move inefficie…
In 2021, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko began letting migrants cross his country’s border into Poland to retaliate against EU sanctions. Poland strengthened its border controls, but the number of illegal migrant crossings into Germany has b…
Warsaw is furious that Germany’s chancellor linked potential border controls to an alleged visas-for-bribes scandal.
Melanie Fink and Jorrit J
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Melanie Fink is APART-GSK Fellow of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Central European University and Assistant Professor, Europa
Institute, Leiden University
Jorrit Rijpma is Professor of EU law, Europa Inst…
