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From now on, customs will no longer individually verify each person who wants to enter Switzerland. In the future, the border guard will only carry out risk-based controls.
Borders remain protected, but the control regime is being relaxed. (Icon Image)
(wap / dpa / sat) In the future, immigrants would be “risk-based,” director of the Federal Customs Administration Christian Bock told the media in Bern on Monday. The border guard now decides on the basis of his risk assessment “where, when and with what intensity controls are carried out.” Control of each individual person is no longer necessary, but is still possible. And Bock promised: “We will not specifically look for shopping tourists.”
So far, a total of 68,000 people have been denied entry to Switzerland during the crown crisis, Christian Bock said. And the head of the Federal Customs Administration emphasized that if the border regime relaxes, neighboring countries are also important: “It doesn’t help if we open a border crossing and side with the neighboring state.”
No neighboring country has decided to reopen the border with Switzerland. In southern Germany and Berlin in particular, however, pressure from business circles, as well as from left and green parties, is mounting. Last week, the Greens, the chambers of commerce in northwestern and eastern Switzerland and the regions around Lake Constance called for the borders to be opened immediately. In Austria, Chancellor Sebastián Kurz wants to consider opening a border in the coming weeks.
