Most recently, the Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden also emphasized when he visited Berlin how important it was to maintain the Schengen area. At the same time, however, one also understands “some measures” that Germany took. The interior ministries of both countries are in close exchange, “so that we have increased police cooperation, which can also lead to the border controls can be reduced or abolished by increased police cooperation,” said Frieden on Monday in Berlin.
Belgium: The country has currently not introduced any controls. At the end of June, however, the government there announced that corresponding measures were planned. This summer the controls should start: the focus is primarily on access roads, international bus traffic and certain train and flight connections.
According to the government, an example is, for example, flights from Italy and Greece, which generally suffer from “high migration pressure”. The controls should be limited to six months.
Denmark: In Germany’s northernmost country, the agricultural and sea borders will be checked to Germany until November 11th. Denmark justifies the step with the threat of possible Russian sabotage files or possible attacks by Islamist terrorist groups such as the “Islamic State” (IS). However, the government reserves the right to expand the controls to other neighboring countries.
Austria: The country is currently checking the borders to all neighboring countries except Germany, i.e. to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. The Austrian government justifies this with irregular migration, the persistent war between Ukraine and Russia and the tightened security situation in the Middle East.
However, countermeasures to the German controls have not yet been provided. On the contrary, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior welcomed the measure. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said that illegal rejections to Austria would not be tolerated. However, Karner said in mid -May while he was a visit to his German colleague Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) in Vienna that so far there were no evidence of such practices. The situation on the border to Germany is still quiet, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Vienna T-Online.
