Germany’s Migration Clampdown: A Call for a More Efficient EU Reception System

20-09-2024 Innocenti Chiara Human Rights and Europe Researcher,  Global Human Rights Defence. On September 9th, the German government announced plans to reintroduce tighter control at all land borders, a measure intended, according to the Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), “to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism.”. Effective from September 16th for a six-month period, the new controls will extend police checks, already in place at Germany’s southern and eastern borders with Austria, Switzerland, Poland, and Czech Republic, to the northern and western borders with France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The […]