Two CDU interior ministers can imagine this "in the short term" - and are putting pressure on Interior Minister Faeser. Since the refugee crisis of 2015, there have already been border controls with Austria.
At the refugee summit on 10 May, the federal government had promised with the states that they would also be introduced to other neighbouring countries "depending on the situation" The majority of EU interior ministers agreed to a compromise to end the long-standing asylum dispute. For the first time, this provides for asylum procedures at the EU's external borders, but also for the distribution of migrants among EU states.