BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc on Wednesday welcomed the introduction of temporary border controls between Italy and Austria, saying it followed a request from the southern German state of Bavaria.
"I do not think Schengen is over," Stephan Mayer, a conservative expert on interior affairs, said of the code which removes border controls between most European states.
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