Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reaffirmed that checks at German borders are to be continued for as long as possible. “We will do this for as long as it takes. And that will be a very long time,” Scholz stated in a special programme on the TV station RTL, which was set to air on Tuesday evening. However, he admitted that the checks “are currently causing a lot of annoyance.” Since September 16, checks have been conducted at all German borders to reduce the number of unauthorized entries. New checks have been implemented at land borders with Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. There ha…