Prime Minister calls on German chancellor to find common solution to problem of exceedingly thorough road checks

On the occasion of an EU summit underway in Brussels, the Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, informed the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, about Czech concern regarding exceedingly thorough road checks to which Czech drivers are exposed in Germany. More than a hundred Czech drivers have filed complaints against Bavarian road police, claiming that Czechs were singled out for attention and treated in a highly disrespectful manner. Chancellor Merkel promised she would look into the problem and try to seek a solution. Previously, German authorities had dismissed Czech complaints about the thorough road checks that sometimes include full body searches, citing a drop in crime statistics as a reason the controls had to continue.