Netherlands begins implementation of additional border controls

NETHERLANDS – The Netherlands has on Monday begun its implementation of additional border controls. The controls are set to last six months, and will take place in border regions and “at airports in relation to specific flights where there is a risk of irregular migration or cross-border crime.” The measures were proposed by the right-wing coalition led by Geert Wilders’ anti-Muslim nationalist PVV party. The PVV’s Marjolein Faber, Dutch Minister of Asylum and Migration, visited a border checkpoint at the Dutch-German border in the province of Limburg. She said that the controls aim to bring down “the illegal influx of migrants in the Netherlands.” (Euronews)