Border checks need ongoing justification: German state PM
BerlincTypeface:> The German government must be able to justify continued border controls in the Schengen area, the premier of the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which shares borders with Belgium, Luxembourg and France, said on Saturday.
'They are not agreed as a permanent measure, they are not designed to be permanent,' Alexander Schweitzer said of the recently imposed border checks. Schweitzer was speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement in Schengen, Luxembourg. With the 1985 agreement, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands agreed to gradually dismantle border controls between them, allowing free movement within the Schengen area. (DPA)
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