According to EU Helpers, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior released a statement confirming the decision.
On October 18, 2023, Vienna reinstated restrictions at the shared borders with Czechia. The nation has border controls with Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein in addition to Czechia.
However, controls at the shared borders with Germany and Austria have very little effect on cross-border movement and create little difficulties for Czech nationals traveling abroad, as stated by Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan in a recent interview with the Czech Press Agency.
Germany, like Austria, declared that it would prolong border controls with Poland, Czechia, and Switzerland through June 15, 2024.
Nancy Faeser, the German Minister of the Interior and Community, affirmed the decision, which was made in response to worries about smuggling and unauthorized migration.
The Minister contended that in addition to aiding in the detection of people traffickers who assist migrants in reaching Germany illegally, the step is required to stop irregular migration to Germany.
German Interior Minister saw the measures as successful, in contrast to Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, citing the Federal Police's almost 560 arrests of people smugglers along the land border with the other three EU members since October.
Czechia removed border controls that had been in place with Slovakia for four months, in contrast to Austria and Germany.
Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, announced the decision to remove border controls with Slovakia, although he also said that sporadic border checks would persist.
Concerns over irregular migration have been a major factor in the decision of several European nations to reinstate border controls at this time. According to data from Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, 380,000 unauthorized attempts to cross the border were found at the EU's external borders last year, the most since 2016.