PRAGUE – The Czech authorities prolonged its checks on the border with European Union neighbour Slovakia by one other 20 days, in search of to manage a spike within the stream of unlawful migrants, Inside Minister Vit Rakusan mentioned on Wednesday.
Czech police began checks on the 252-km (157 mile) border on Sept. 29, initially for 10 days.
Earlier than the checks, the central European nation had detained round 12,000 unlawful migrants in 2022, a 12-fold enhance from a yr in the past.
The overwhelming majority have been Syrians, largely coming from Turkey, the federal government has mentioned. They primarily proceed to Germany and elsewhere.
Slovakia has criticised the Czech border checks as being in opposition to the ideas of the border check-free Schengen space inside the EU.
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