This has now been rectified. In 2023, close to 89 thousand people worked in the Netherlands while living across the border in a neighbouring country: 44 thousand people in Belgium and 45 thousand in ...

Nearly 90,000 people work in the Netherlands but live in Belgium or Germany, according to 2023 figures from national ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says that the number of people turned back at the country’s borders increased by ...

The German Police Union (GdP) is warning that intensified border checks and asylum rejections cannot go on much longer amid staff shortages and suspended training. GdP chief Andreas Rosskopf said the ...

The German federal police controls vehicles coming into Germany from Austria at the border control station Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, on May 15th, 2025. Photo: Michaela STACHE / AFP Germany ...

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters in Berlin that police at the border would be increased in coming days.

Germany has tightened its border controls, turning away asylum seekers — but police say this can't last. Meanwhile, an Iraqi couple is on trial in Bavaria, accused of enslaving two Yazidi girls.

Of the 51 people who sought asylum at the border in the past week, 32 were rejected while the rest were identified as belonging to “vulnerable groups” and allowed into Germany, he said.