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France and Germany bring in extra testing rules at border due to Covid variant fears

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:42:51 +0100

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.

Are cross-border workers spreading coronavirus between Switzerland and France?

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:33:38 +0100

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.

EXPLAINED: Why Switzerland avoided adding French border regions to its quarantine list

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:54:03 +0200

Switzerland on Monday added several regions of France and Austria to its quarantine list, but avoided including border regions. Here’s why.

Confusion at French-German border over reopening date

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:25:14 +0200

The EU wants a coordinated reopening of borders, but it seems that for 24 hours the France-Germany border will only be open one way.

Five border crossings between Geneva and France re-open

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:29:57 +0200

After shutting down many border points with France, Swiss authorities have re-opened some of them to avoid bottlenecks.

France renews anti-terror border controls

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 06:26:55 +0200

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 to send more police to Italy border after clashes with protesters

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:11:59 +0200

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 to extend internal EU border checks over security fears

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:15:37 +0200

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.

French customs check across border irks Italy

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:03:18 +0200

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.

Spanish police shoot Frenchman who 'shouted Allahu akbar'

Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:16:43 +0100

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'.

UK to spend €40 million on securing Calais border

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:29:45 +0200

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.

UK border must move back, says 'next French president'

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:37:21 +0200

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.

Now France insists it won't open UK border to migrants

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:40:23 +0100

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.

France bars 1,000 people posing 'security risks'

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:20:31 +0100

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.

Search called off for pilot missing in Channel

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:18:00 +0200

Rescue services on Monday gave up the search for a German pilot missing after his plane crashed into the English Channel on its way to France.

France, Italy violated 'spirit' of border-free Europe: EU

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:09:28 +0200

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.