Schuster wants another step after border controls

Schuster believes there is no alternative to extending border controls

"There is no alternative - as long as the EU's external borders are full of holes, internal migration of refugees continues unabated and the Dublin procedure remains a total failure," Schuster clarified. Saxony has repeatedly urged the continuation of controls at Germany's external borders and spoken out in favor of rejecting asylum seekers who enter from safe countries.

Controls at all borders since September

Border controls are not actually planned in the European Schengen area. Last September, however, Germany extended the controls already in place in the east and south of the country to the borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. At the time, the stationary controls were justified with illegal immigration as well as protection against Islamist terrorists and cross-border crime.