Germany to extend border controls with Czechia and other neighbouring countries

Germany will extend border controls with Czechia, Poland and Switzerland by at least 20 days, the German interior minister, Nancy Faeser, announced on Wednesday. She said she had already discussed this with the neighbouring countries and did not rule out further extensions of controls.

Germany resumed border controls with Czechia, Poland and Switzerland on 16 October in a bid to fight human trafficking. It also extended controls with Austria, which were introduced in 2015, for another six months.

The checks are not carried out across the entire length of the border, but only at selected points. In the case of the Czech-German border, German police patrol the motorway between Prague and Dresden.