Denmark defended Thursday its decision to reintroduce controls at its borders with Germany and Sweden, denying that it was restoring passport checks within Europe's open internal borders.
As European interior ministers gathered for immigration talks in Brussels, Danish Integration Minister Soren Pind said his government's decision to deploy permanent customs officers was aimed at stopping cross-border crime.
"I see a lot of drama in the European press but I am going to state things like they are," Pind told reporters, insisting that Europe's Schengen open borders agreement permitted such actions.
Note EU-Digest: Danish Integration Minister Soren Pind is "talking out of his hat" said one EU official. "You stop crime by doing spot checks not by installing complete border controls."
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