Asylum dispute: Eachtable border controls of residents – that is how Merz reacts | EUROtoday

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) sees no indicators that in Germany residents might additionally perform controls themselves on the borders, as has occurred on the Pentecost weekend within the Netherlands.

“I’m not afraid,” he mentioned after a gathering with the Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof when requested by a journalist. “If someone in Germany would do that, it would be illegal and I assume that the responsible authorities (…) would also prevent this immediately.”

In the heated debate about asylum coverage within the Netherlands, residents organized car controls on the German border on Saturday on their very own. On the federal street 408, which runs from the Lower Saxony Haren (EMS) within the route of the central recording facility for refugees within the Dutch Ter Apel, vehicles geared up with warning vests and lamps on Saturday night, as media additionally reported with video recordings of management.

On Sunday night, the Germans and the Dutch police prevented a brand new management marketing campaign. Again, dozens of Dutch had been raised on the border to stop the potential entry of asylum seekers from Germany into the Netherlands. As the broadcaster RTV Noord reported, the police discovered the identification of these concerned. On Tuesday, the federal government within the Netherlands was damaged in a dispute over a tougher asylum coverage.