a youthful-looking police officer says in between checks, referring to the passport-free travel zone within the European Union. These are now the new realities on all of Germany’s land borders.

Rather, the state will implement border checks selectively, based on the security situation at any give them. Ordinarily, borders between EU countries ... are already in place at Germany’s border with ...

Germany's restrictions are contrary to one of the EU's key principles - free movement without border checks between member countries ... while those affecting Poland, Switzerland and Czech ...

Europe's Schengen zone allows for passport-free travel between ... border checks may only add to to DB passengers' troubles. Germany shares land borders with Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, ...

The Theodul Glacier, under the famous Matterhorn mountain, lost almost a quarter of its mass between ... landlocked Switzerland's 1,935-kilometre border with Austria, France, Germany, Italy ...