Interior minister says: ‘We are strengthening our inner security with concrete action’
German interior minister Nancy Faeser says the move is an effort to stem the inward flow of irregular migration in a way that conforms with EU law. Photograph: Michael Kappeler/dpa via APhas informed the European Commission that it will impose border checks on all its national land borders for six months from next Monday.
The announcement comes a week after a far-right state election win, a postwar first, where migration and security questions dominated. Candles and flowers and the inscription near the area where three people were killed and several injured during a knife attack during a city festival in Solingen in August. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images
Conservative and far-right politicians accuse their neighbours of waving through their own asylum applicants for Germany to process, house and feed.
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