During the European Championships, 22,000 federal police officers will be on duty every day to ensure security – according to Faeser, this is “the largest deployment in the history of the federal police”. “They protect our borders, airports and rail traffic.”
Because of the tournament, temporary controls will initially apply at all German Schengen internal borders until July 19 – i.e. until a few days after the final on July 14.
In addition, the Interior Ministry announced at the end of May that it would extend the stationary controls at the land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, which have been in place since the beginning of the year, by six months. The reason given was that this was to combat human trafficking and limit irregular migration.i
