Germany is reinstating temporary border controls with immediate effect, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Sunday, as the country buckles under pressure from a record influx of refugees.
"The aim of this measure is to stop the current influx to Germany and to return to an orderly process," he said, according to the AFP news agency, as the city of Munich recorded an influx of 63,000 asylum seekers in two weeks.
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