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Border checks for people entering Germany are meant to be exceptions, as Germany is exclusively neighbors with Schengen countries | Photo: Frank Hammerschmidt/dpa/picture alliance
© AFP | The President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, on the left, with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Finland closed its border with Russia in mid-December in response to the surge in migrants | Photo: Heikki Saukkomaa/picture alliance/dpa/Lehtikuva
From file: A caregiver taking an elderly woman outside in Rome | Photo: ANSA/Luciano Del Castillo
From file: Southern Italy is a common arrival point for migrants from Africa and the Middle East | Photo: Orietta Scardino/ZUMA Press/IMAGO