Border Controls Extended: "Germany Threatens Very Controversial Common Path in European Migration Policy

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Interior Minister Dobrindt (CSU) extends border controls by half a year – although the new European asylum system will come into force in June. Migration experts declare this to be legally sensitive. What is behind the process?

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The border controls at Germany's national borders are to be extended beyond 15 March. The federal police in Saxony are well prepared for this. Criticism comes from the Greens.

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Berlin, 17 February 2026. On the extension of border controls for half a year, Gottfried Curio, the spokesman for the AfD Group in the German Bundestag, explains: "The announced measure does not really pay for the foreseeable party dispute. Not, however, because a border security would not be needed; rather, because the way in which this "border control" measure is actually carried out is in all respects a lie to its name. These so-called contro…

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Interior Minister Dobrindt wants to extend border controls by six more months. To date, 1400 people have been directly rejected at the NRW border with the Netherlands.