In a move that highlights growing security apprehensions across Europe, France has announced the implementation of temporary border checks with Luxembourg and five neighbouring countries from 1 November 2024 to 30 April 2025.
The border controls will encompass land, air, and sea routes, affecting travel between France and Luxembourg, as well as Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain, the French government told the European Commission.
“Serious threats to public policy, public order, and internal security posed by high-level terrorist activities, the growing presence of criminal networks facilitating irregular migration and smuggling, and migration flows that risk infiltration by radicalised individuals” are some reasons cited on the EU Commission’s website.
It also said that irregular crossings on the English Channel and North Sea borders and rising violence among migrants is leading to “dangerous situations involving both migrants and law enforcement.”
Also read:Checks reinstated at German-Luxembourg border
Last month, Germany re-introduced border checks with Luxembourg, setting up checkpoints along motorways where Germany shares a border with Luxembourg. Like France, Germany framed its actions as a necessary response to ongoing security threats.
The European Commission mandates that border controls between member states should be temporary and proportionate. Currently, eight of the bloc’s 27 countries have implemented some form of border controls.
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