Germany does not rule out re-establishing border controls with member countries of the European Union in the face of the risk of the Covid variant, Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday.
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"If countries were to take completely different paths, which I don't see at the moment but which can also be the case, then we have to be prepared to the extreme and say then that we must also reintroduce border controls"
, the Chancellor said at a press conference, after eight hours of negotiations with the leaders of regional states which have resulted in an extension and tightening of anti-Covid restrictions.
