Europe's extended border controls spark backlash over economic and legal fallout
Marcel Emmerich, spokesperson for internal affairs, comments on the extension of border controls:
While the Chancellor invokes European unity in Munich, his interior minister is shredding the very idea of Europe with persistent border blockades. Prolonging these controls harms Europe, ties up police resources, burdens the economy, and violates established law through arbitrary rejections. Station security is being neglected because officers are left idling at the border instead. Arbitrary measures and millions of overtime hours spent on symbolic politics do not make a security strategy.
In the midst of an economic crisis, these border blockades are economic madness: they disrupt supply chains and hit cross-border commuters in border regions hard. The interior minister approaches asylum law with political arbitrariness. Undermining the rule of law ultimately weakens security as well.
This misguided policy must come to an end. We call on the interior minister to lift the border blockades immediately. Only then can police forces be redeployed to train stations and other critical security locations, and commuters and travelers will no longer face unnecessary delays.
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