Czechia extends spot checks on Slovak border until November 22

Random checks on Czechia’s border with Slovakia are being extended until November 22, the Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, has announced. If the government had not decided on Wednesday to prolong the controls they would have ended the following day, November 2.

Mr. Rakušan said that until genuinely effective protection of the EU’s external border was in place Czechia would have to deal with the impact of illegal migration at the internal borders of the Schengen zone.