Germany to keep border open despite migrant influx from Belarus


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Oct 2021

Germany's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer speaks to the media, in Berlin, Germany, October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is not considering closing its border with Poland to stem the flow of migrants trying to cross into the European Union from Belarus, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday.

"No one intends to close the border," Seehofer told journalists at a conference on the migration situation in Germany.

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