France and Germany will this week introduce tighter controls at their shared border, but for the moment the border will remain open despite fears in Germany of the spread of Covid virus variants from France's Moselle département.
A Lyon doctor claims that cross-border workers are partly responsible for the increase in Covid-19 infections in Haute-Savoie and Ain, the French départments that border Switzerland.
France will renew for another six months the border controls it re-established with its neighbours on the night of the November 2015 Paris attacks, according to a document seen by AFP.
France's interior minister said he would send "significant" security reinforcements to the country's Alpine border with Italy after a weekend of protest actions by pro and anti migrant groups.
France said Wednesday it has decided to
extend border checks with countries in Europe's Schengen passport-free zone until the end of October because of the persistent threat of terrorism.
The Italian Foreign Ministry summoned France's ambassador on Saturday, after uniformed French customs officers crossed the border in the Alps to confront a man suspected of carrying drugs.
Police in Spain shot and injured an unarmed Frenchman on Saturday at a toll station near the French border, who officers said was shouting 'Allahu akbar'.
Britain has pledged up to £36 million to maintain border controls across the channel in Calais and to ensure France's Jungle migrant camp remains closed following its demolition this week, the UK's Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Monday.
Alain Juppé the current favourite to be elected the next president has made it clear it's time to shift the UK border in Calais back across the English Channel.
While President François Hollande talked of Brexit "consequences" for the UK in terms of migrants, the country's interior minister has tried to play down talk of France forcing Britain to move its border home.
Nearly a thousand people thought to pose security risks have been denied entry into France in the run-up to the COP21 climate talks, the country's interior minister said on Saturday.
<p>Moves by France and Italy to curb the flow of Arab Spring migrants this year violated the spirit, but not the rules, of Europe's border-free Schengen area, the European Commission said on Monday.</p>
