Germany risks border chaos and confrontation with EU neighbours after announcing frontier checks in an attempt to return illegal migrants and asylum seekers.
Controls at all German land borders will be introduced for six months from next Monday to stop illegal migrants entering the country, although details of the rules for rejection have not yet been released.
The crisis measures, tabled by Nancy Faeser, the German interior minister, follow recent terror attacks by asylum seekers in Munich and Solingen.
Nancy Faeser, the interior minister, said the controls will help prevent “Islamist terror”
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“We are strengthening our security through concrete action and we are continuing our tough stance against irregular migration,” she said on Monday, before consultations with the national parliament.
“Until we achieve strong protection of the EU’s external borders, we must control our national borders even more