Travellers have been able to cross borders between the two Nordic countries without passports since the late 1950s but starting today all Sweden-bound trains will be stopped for mandatory border controls.
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Extra security staff were on hand to oversee the new border controls on the Danish side of the Oresund bridge-and-tunnel link, a major entry point for migrants and refugees hoping to start a new life in Sweden.
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants entered Sweden after the government declared it would provide asylum for those fleeing the Syrian civil war.
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“And this can create a situation in which we will need to introduce border controls toward Germany, if we decide that’s what’s best for Denmark”.
The new border checks were instigated by Sweden to try to slow an influx of migrants that is expected to reach 190,000 this year. When the Swedish deputy prime minister announced the change in refugee policy, he began to cry, according to The Guardian.
“We are simply reacting to a decision made in Sweden…”
Several other European Union countries, including Germany, Austria and France, also re-imposed border checks a year ago as the continent grappled with its biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
Finnish ship operator Finnlines is also requiring boarding passengers in Germany to present a valid passport, a photo ID card, visas, residence permits “or other equivalent documents”, reports Finnish state media YLE.
In contrast, Denmark expects to receive about 20,000 asylum seekers this year.
“We are introducing temporary border controls, but in a balanced way”, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen told reporters in Copenhagen, adding there would be no problem for “ordinary” Danes and Germans to cross the border.
Despite the rhetoric whether the new border checks, which will see travellers on trains and buses have their paperwork checked as they cross the border into Sweden from Germany and Denmark will actually be effective is another matter entirely.
Sweden took in over 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015, the highest proportion per capita in the European Union, while Denmark has received just 18,000. The bill is aimed at cracking down on the inflow of refugees from Sweden.
He echoed other German officials’ calls for a pan-European agreement on how to control the movement of migrants across borders.
Last week, Norway’s rightwing government proposed a package of new measures that it claimed would make Oslo’s asylum policies “among Europe’s toughest”.
“Whether you are in Denmark or Sweden, it doesn’t matter to the people here”, said Richard Johansson, a 29-year-old Swede.
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Swedish ministers declined requests for an interview with the Guardian.
