Dobrindt's Border Controls Burden Federal Budget: Millions of Costs Despite Low Impact

One of the first official acts of the new Federal Minister of the Interior, Alexander Dobrindt, was to increase controls at Germany's borders. Now he takes a first assessment and is criticised again.

The Bundespolizei hardly rejects asylum seekers. Does the measures not work?

Explosion of costs, human rights violations, police overload: Alexander Dobrindt's border controls are being tested.

There are tightened controls at the German borders. 1,676 people have been turned back in the last two weeks. Interior Minister Dobrindt thanks the "professional and dedicated efforts of our federal police."

The Green Party parliamentary group is complaining about the slow responses to its questions about the newly introduced border controls by Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU). Several members of parliament had submitted nearly 20 questions about the scope, costs, and legal basis for the more intensive controls at the German borders. Dobrindt's office only answered some questions three days later than agreed. The final response, fo…

It is only much later that answers to border controls come in. Apparently, the Federal Minister of the Interior "extremely difficult to answer obvious questions," says Notz Green Party Vize.