# Germany extends internal-Schengen border controls under Merz

Date: 2025

In May 2025 the new interior ministry extended land-border controls begun under Scholz. Extension is a completed administrative act, not a new fence.

## People

- Friedrich Merz: https://factrail.ai/people/friedrich-merz

## Drivers

- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-extend-border-controls-merz-2025/
- https://www.bmi.bund.de/EN/topics/migration/border-controls.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/de-merz-border-controls-2025