(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Interior Ministry announced on Friday that it will extend migration controls at borders with Austria and Denmark, which were reintroduced in several parts of the normally passport-free Schengen area after the European migrant crisis of 2015.
The extension is set to begin on November 12, one day after they were set to expire, and apply for six months.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer based the new measure on the argument that illegal secondary migration — i.e., migrants moving on from where they entered the EU to another member state — was still too high and that border protection of the European Union’s external borders was still lacking.
“The conditions for lifting the internal controls still don’t exist,” he said in a statement.
