“We want to further reduce irregular migration. To this end, we are now taking further steps that go beyond the comprehensive measures currently in place,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said at a news conference on Monday. “Until we achieve strong protection of the EU’s external borders with the new Common European Asylum System, we need to strengthen controls at our national borders. These controls will also enable effective refoulement,” she adds. Temporary border controls will be set up at the land borders with France, Luxembourgh, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark for a period of six m…