Belgium announces border checks in migration clampdown


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  • Friday, 20 Jun 2025

FILE PHOTO: A large Belgium's flag is unfolded in Brussels, Belgium July 21, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/ File Photo

BRUSSELS -Belgium will introduce border checks on people coming into the country to clamp down on illegal migration, the government said, in another limit on free movement across Europe's Schengen zone.

The restrictions in the country that borders the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg and Germany will start this summer, a spokesperson for the junior minister for migration, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, said on Friday.

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