Germany to boost border controls for UEFA Euro 2024
The German government has announced plans to introduce new, temporary border controls during the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship
The plans were confirmed by Nancy Faeser, Germany’s Interior Minister, in an interview with the Rheinische Post newspaper.
The temporarily expanded border controls are intended to reduce the potential threat of “violent actors” from entering the country as part of a surge of visitors. No specific measures have been decided yet.
The tournament, which Germany is hosting this year, is due to start on 14 June, and is expected to attract approximately 2.7 million fans to stadiums across the country, as well as up to 12 million more at public viewing events.
“For the Euros, we are pooling the forces of the security authorities even more strongly, and preparing for possible threats,” Faeser explained.
The concerns follow a terrorist attack at a concert in Moscow on 22 March, in which at least 139 people were killed, and 180 more injured, according to figures reported by Reuters. France has raised its own national security threat level to its highest in the wake of that incident.
Geopolitical instability is a key concern for the international assistance sector, as noted by Edmund Santiago, Chairman and CEO of Redbridge Holdings, in October 2023’s ITIJ.