{"id":667690,"date":"2026-01-01T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:13:15","slug":"illegal-entries-into-germany-halve-over-two-years-border-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667690\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal entries into Germany halve over two years, border police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The number of unauthorized entries into Germany has halved over the past two years, according to figures released by the border police on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The police recorded 62,526 illegal entries across Germany\u2019s land, air and sea borders in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That compares with 83,572 in 2024 and 127,549 in 2023, when monthly figures at times exceeded 20,000. This December, the number fell to just under 4,600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since mid-September 2024, police controls have been reinstated at all German land borders in a bid to curb illegal crossings by migrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt intensified the controls in May, after Chancellor Friedrich Merz came to power at the head of a conservative-led coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since then, border police have also been instructed to turn back asylum seekers, with exceptions for vulnerable groups such as the sick or pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Border controls are generally not permitted within the Schengen free-travel area, which includes most EU states as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, but exceptions can be made for security threats or other public crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of unauthorized entries into Germany has halved over the past two years, according to figures released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[109783,203549,2000,299,1824,28379,203550],"class_list":{"0":"post-667690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-border-crossing","9":"tag-border-police","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-police-officers","14":"tag-unauthorized-entries"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115822146507639865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}