#border checks

[tearsofrefugees]

Germany and the Netherlands to cooperate on speeding up deportations

Since 2024, Germany has moved to bolster security checks across the land borders it shares with neighboring countries. The Netherlands is on

[polgeonow]

Map: Schengen Border Controls Before Coronavirus (2017-2020)

Map of "temporary" border controls with Europe's free-travel Schengen Area just before coronavirus, and timeline of the past two years.

This is the companion piece to our map article on coronavirus-related border controls in Europe, bridging the gap between our previous reporting on Schengen Area border controls and today. Several European countries already were conducting border controls - controversially - for several years even before the current crisis.

[generalelectionmusings]

EU contradicts Boris Johnson’s false claim about border checks in UK after Brexit

Michel Barnier says there will be ‘checks and controls’ on GB-NI trade after keeping quiet during election campaign

[indizombie]

It is typically referred to as the “Irish border” problem, but this is really a “British border” in Ireland, existing only because of Britain’s colonial partitioning of the island. Anyway, following a no-deal Brexit, some kind of border checks will be necessary along that unnatural dividing line. Hence, the calls for a “border poll” — a provision of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), which would see a referendum on Irish unity take place on both sides of the border. Sinn Féin, the Irish republican party most ardently pushing for reunification, has already called for a unity vote to follow a no-deal scenario. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said this week such a situation would represent a "dramatic change of circumstances" for Ireland, north and south, and it must be given the “opportunity to decide” on its future together. She is right, but Boris Johnson and the Tories naturally have no interest in entertaining any talk of Irish unity, despite the fact that the GFA calls for London to exercise its power in Northern Ireland with “rigorous impartiality” in acknowledgement that changes in its constitutional status can be made only by the people of Ireland.

Danielle Ryan, 'Ireland needs to prepare for a border poll & plan for reunification; the alternative could be chaos', RT

[tearsofrefugees]

Germany introduces checks at all borders, moves to refuse entry to migrants

Following increased political pressure, German interior minister Nancy Faeser announced on Monday (9 September) that she will introduce chec

[tearsofrefugees]

Neighbours slam Germany over 'unacceptable' border control measures

Poland has deemed Germany's decision to implement border controls "unacceptable," while Austria has announced that it will not accept any mi

[polgeonow]

Schengen Border Controls in the Time of Coronavirus (March 27, 2020)

Map of which borders inside Europe's free-travel Schengen Area are currently subject to passport and customs checks, during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

New free article! There’s been a lot going on in Europe lately.

[tearsofrefugees]

German authorities have stopped thousands of irregular entries since introducing border checks last year

Since the introduction of expanded border checks in May 2025, Germany's Federal Police has prevented more than 28,000 people from entering G