Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

Checks are being temporarily reintroduced at Germany's borders with France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime. Follow DW for the latest. Germany sets up ...

The French-German border is allowing only goods and commuters to pass Germany has become the latest country to close borders as European nations try to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives ...

Germany has recorded a drop in illegal migrant crossings since it implemented checks on all its borders, police data showed on Thursday, as separate figures demonstrated a 22% rise in deportations ...

Germany will reintroduce controls at all land borders to reduce irregular migration, the country’s interior minister announced on Monday. “We are strengthening internal security and continuing ...

Countries across the European Union, including Germany, have set up border controls to stem the spread of the virus, but with the side effect of preventing cross-border workers travelling to their ...

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Thursday that German border controls will continue until a European solution to manage the numbers of unauthorized entries is found. "We will have to ...

Temporary controls would be extended to Germany's land borders with all nine of its EU neighbours, the interior ministry said in a statement. These would limit migration and "protect against the ...

Germany is set to expand border checks following a knife attack which left three people dead in the town of Solingen in August. The government has come under pressure to take a harder line on ...

Germany’s interior minister said Sunday (24 October) it was “legitimate” to protect borders, after several EU states asked Brussels to pay for barriers to prevent illegal migrants from ...