In this moment there are six countries in the Schengen area, where are in force border controls, which are in reference to the actual situation in validity till November 11th, 2017. Among these countries there are Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France and the non EU member Norway. The named countries applied for the prolongation of the controls on Friday, October 13th in the frame of Council of Home affairs in Luxemburg due to the political safety situation- namely the »not sufficient contol at the EU- outer borders and the increase of the terrorism threats«.
At the Austrian border with Germany there were registered – following the data of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior – between January and August 2017 more than 11.242 non permitted entrances. In Austria the controls are in force at the borders with Hungary and Slovenia. In accordance with the situation a new control point was opened on October 13th, 2017 at the Italian border near Brenner lake for the control of cargo trains coming from the south.
