Germany partially closed its borders with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol on Sunday over a troubling
surge in coronavirus mutations, drawing a swift rebuke from the European Union.
Czechs hurried to cross the German border on Saturday a day before it closes as part of Berlin's effort to stop the spread of highly infectious coronavirus strains.
A 20-year-old American man tried disguising himself as a cleaner to cheat coronavirus border controls in Germany so he could see his girlfriend, police said Tuesday.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has called for controls to be put in place at the Swiss border after the death of boy who was allegedly pushed under a train by an Eritrean man living in Zurich and on the run from police.
The border area between Denmark and Germany should be included on the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage List, according to Danish Minister for Culture Mette Bock.
In a bid to protect its pork industry, Denmark began building a fence on Monday along its border with Germany to keep out wild boar infected with the African swine fever virus.
Germany’s top court has rejected complaints by the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group against the government’s refugee policy.
Austria's government warned Tuesday it could "take measures to protect" its borders after Germany planned restrictions on the entry of migrants as part of a deal to avert a political crisis in Berlin.
Police in Denmark have required participants in an amateur running event that crosses the Danish-German border to carry passports or other valid travel documents.
The Mexico border wall was one of the most controversial elements of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped two German companies from registering an interest in building it.
A suspect suitcase that caused a border crossing between Switzerland and Germany to be evacuated on Wednesday turned out to contain an electric shaver that had turned itself on inside of the bag.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has given Europe two weeks to implement measures agreed last week's EU summit - if not “other measures will be necessary”, he warned.
Germany's eurosceptic right-wing populist AfD party created a storm Saturday by suggesting police "if need be" should threaten to shoot migrants seeking to enter the country.
Germany has decided to extend temporary border controls until mid-February, its interior ministry said on Friday, as Europe's top economy faces a record migrant influx.
Police near Passau, on the Bavarian border with Austria, have warned that there are no places left in emergency accommodation centres as crowds wait to cross into Germany in plummeting temperatures.
Updated: Chancellor Angela Merkel joined others in condemning the proposal by a police union chief on Sunday that Germany build a fence to block off its border with Austria.
Federal police in Saxony have set up border checks on the main road between the eastern state and the Czech Republic as refugees seek to avoid travelling through Hungary on the way to Germany.
Germany is not slamming its doors shut to refugees even if it is reinstating border controls, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Monday, adding that the drastic measure was needed to bring some order to the asylum process.
The Police Union (GdP) warned on Sunday that German authorities were unable to register many of the refugees arriving in the country for lack of resources.
UPDATED: As his first official mission abroad, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen went to Germany to explain Denmark's plans to step up controls at the countries' shared border.
