(Adnkronos) – German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said she intends to extend border controls beyond March 2025, citing successes in curbing irregular immigration and combating human smuggling. “Our comprehensive measures to curb irregular immigration and combat human smuggling are working,” Faeser told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.
Faeser reiterated that controls will be needed until the European Union significantly strengthens protections at its external borders. Last September, the German Interior Ministry decided to extend border controls to all of the country’s borders to curb irregular immigration. Police previously carried out checks along the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland, officially on a temporary basis. Controls were subsequently added to the land borders with Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
