Germany has announced plans to tighten control at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing ...

and at the border with Austria since 2015. Commentators warn that the crackdown sends a devastating signal, particularly from a pan-European perspective. Such measures come at the expense of the ...

On Monday, Germany began random checks at it borders with five Western European nations expanding a system of controls that are already in place at four other borders. Last month, a knife attack ...

Germany has begun random checks at its borders with five Western European nations, expanding a system of controls already in place at its four other borders KEHL, Germany -- Germany on Monday ...

Border controls with Austria have been in place since 2015, the year Germany was rocked by massive flows of asylum seekers stemming from the civil war in Syria. Monday's move was a blow to the ...

Travel between borders will still be possible, and efforts will be made to ensure that waiting times are minimized, it said. Germany, which boasts Europe’s largest economy, remains a top ...

Several countries that share borders with Germany have criticized the plan, which they say undermines freedom of movement, widely seen as a core principle of the European Union. German police and ...

Catholic university chaplain at European University Viadrina, told Reuters. The border controls are being reintroduced at a time when Germany has seen a 21.7% drop in asylum applications in the ...

She signaled the move was aimed at protecting German citizens from the dangers posed by Islamist terrorism as well as serious cross-border crime. The move has put the unity of the European bloc to ...