An agreement has been reached to end border checks between Germany and Luxembourg, officials announced Tuesday on the sidelines of a meeting of German-speaking interior ministers taking place in Luxembourg.
Under the accord, the border checks will cease, and the installations on Motorway 64 near Trier will be dismantled. The agreement was struck between Minister for Home Affairs Léon Gloden and his German counterpart, Alexander Dobrindt.
The fixed border checks are to be replaced by mobile checkpoints near the Markusbierg car park, conducted in a manner similar to checks on the Saar motorway behind the bridge in Schengen.
On Monday, news emerged that the Administrative Court in Koblenz had ruled the checks in the German-Luxembourg border region to be in violation of the Schengen Codex.
