Germany to implement temporary controls on all land borders
Germany's government announced temporary border controls at all of the country's land borders on Monday (September 9) in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. - REUTERS
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00:00Germany's government says it is implementing temporary controls at all of the country's
00:06land borders in an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public.
00:11The controls are set to begin on September 16 and last for six months.
00:16Nancy Faeser is the country's interior minister.
00:21I have ordered this today and have already informed the EU.
00:24This will serve to further limit irregular migration and protect against the acute dangers
00:29posed by Islamist terror and serious crime.
00:33We are doing everything we can to better protect the people in our country against this.
00:40This includes the far-reaching measures I am taking now.
00:45Germany has hardened its stance on migration in recent years.
00:48And the government is scrambling to retake the initiative after support for the far-right
00:52Alternative for Germany, or AFD, has surged over the issue.
00:59And deadly knife attacks, where the suspects were asylum seekers, have stoked concerns
01:03over immigration.
01:04The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a knife attack that killed three people
01:09in August.
01:10The announcement comes after the AFD became the first far-right party since World War
01:14II to win a state election earlier this month.
01:18And two weeks ahead of an election in Brandenburg, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Faeser's
01:23center-left Social Democrats are fighting to retain control of the government.
01:28Germany shares its more than 2,300-mile land border with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium,
01:33Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.