Germany extends border controls by 6 months as election rivals focus on migration ahead of poll - Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by anothe

Germany is extending controls on all its external border through 15 September, the German government announced Wednesday. The controls had been due to expire next month. Earlier, Luxembourg had threatened to refer the matter to the European Commission if the border controls were extended.

The German government has extended controls at all of the country's land borders by another six months in an effort to further reduce irregular migration, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday. "With border controls,