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Now Germany is doing it. When will France follow?”
While Marine Le Pen, pf France's National Rally party, said The response [to migration] cannot be unilaterally scrapping Schengen and dropping the ball to countries which sit at Europe’s external borders.”
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, said If Germany can do it, why can’t we?”
Dutch coalition member and leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, asked These checks are usually directed against people of colour. Studies show that such random checks can open the door to racial profiling,
The signal is deterrence - an attempt to demonstrate the ability to act,
said Hans Vorlaender, chairperson of Germany's expert council on integration and migration It's challenging to scientifically assess how these border controls influence the arrival of irregular migrants,
I think it's a good thing because of all the problems we have, with immigration,
The current policy goal of turning back (migrants) seeking protection at Germany’s borders represents a dangerous form of populism in the migration policy debate,
a statement said, which called for an “evidence-based debate on migration policy in Europe.” The intention of the government seems to be to show symbolically to Germans and to potential migrants that the latter are no longer wanted here,
said Marcus Engler of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research in a statement There is absolutely no question [of racial profiling], and I would like to emphasise this again here that racially motivated police action is completely unacceptable and unlawful,
It remains to be seen how successful it will be in curbing migration and people smuggling,
he said in the Monday morning interview The German government wants to show that they are doing something, and with the upcoming elections and the past elections, this is very important political signalling, of course, and it signals that we take back control of our borders,
migration expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations Svenja Niederfranke told Euronews The Commission is always not happy when a member state introduces temporary border controls because that is against the idea of the European Union and against the idea of the Schengen Zone,
Research has shown usually with these border checks, it's usually not the big fish, it's the smaller fish that will get caught. And not every single smuggler will get caught either, because obviously they know where the border checks are and they will find different ways to do it,
Sometimes people are not registered in Italy or in Greece and then they reach, for example, Austria," where they have no family members in other states and have never received a visa from a member state before
So the Dublin system is a little bit more complicated, but it's still true that it's really the countries who are on the external borders, that are responsible for most of the asylum claims in the European Union,
With regards to the discussions on the new pact, the reform of the European asylum system, Germany was also more of a progressive voice and now it's turning slightly back on that,
There are very specific rules of when a member state can introduce temporary border controls,
That is why we will expand our temporary border control to include all of Germany's land borders, as I ordered today,
My order is also intended to protect against the acute threat of Islamist extremist terrorism and serious cross-border crime,