The minister says border controls with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark will start on September 16.
Germany is extending short-term border controls already in place at a few of its borders to all of its land borders, the inside minister mentioned.
Berlin will work carefully with neighbouring nations to implement short-term border controls, based on Inside Minister Nancy Faeser, who added that this is able to maintain the affect on border areas as small as potential.
“We’re strengthening our inside safety by means of concrete actions and persevering with our agency stance towards irregular migration,” Faeser mentioned at a information convention on Monday.
“It will be significant for us to work carefully with our neighbours and to minimise the affect on travellers and on a regular basis life within the border areas,” mentioned Faeser.
Border controls with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark will start on September 16, Faeser mentioned, and can initially final six months.
Germany’s centre-left authorities has been consulting with the principle opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) social gathering on methods to curb migration amid public concern and following a lethal knife assault by a Syrian asylum seeker final month within the metropolis of Solingen.
Final week, the far-right, anti-immigration social gathering Various for Germany (AfD) gained state elections in Thuringia and got here second in Saxony.
Faeser’s Social Democrats face regional elections in two weeks in Brandenburg, the place the social gathering governs in coalition with the Greens and Christian Democrats.
Germany shares its greater than 3,700-kilometre (2,300-mile) land border with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Europe’s Schengen space, which incorporates 25 of the EU’s 27 member states and several other different nations, permits free journey between them with out border controls.
Nonetheless, Member States could reintroduce controls at sure inside borders in distinctive circumstances, and several other have achieved so in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic or following assaults.
Prolonged controls
Germany final yr introduced tighter controls at its land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland in response to a pointy rise in first-time asylum functions.
“Till we obtain robust safety of the EU’s exterior borders with the brand new Widespread European Asylum System, we should additional improve controls at our nationwide borders,” Faeser mentioned.
He famous that Germany has already had greater than 30,000 individuals turned away from attempting to cross its borders since final October.
Austrian International Minister Gerhard Karner advised Bild newspaper on Monday that his nation wouldn’t settle for any refugees or migrants turned away by Germany on the border.
“There isn’t any room for manoeuvre,” he mentioned. “It’s the regulation. I’ve ordered the top of the federal police to not permit any return.”