Donald Trump scares off German holidaymakers with controls, according to survey:

"The AfD is the party of right-wing extremism; it poses a danger to our liberal democracy."— Karin Prien, deputy chair of the CDU, in an interview with ARD.

When Canadians hear they're doing these outbound checks and they're taking not minutes but hours, nobody is going to come down here.— Len Saunders, a U.S. immigration lawyer, expresses concern about the impact of the new border checks.

"The Greens are the biggest losers of this survey, the Left is the biggest winner."— Hermann Binkert, Managing Director of INSA, regarding the survey results in Baden-Württemberg.

"We keep our promises from the election campaign and are serious about the migration turnaround. We decide who comes into our country and end illegal immigration!"— Alexander Hoffmann, CSU group leader, stated this on X.

"The AfD is a party that poses a serious danger to our democracy and our rule of law. From German history, we know how terribly circumstances can develop when right-wing extremists, nationalists, and enemies of democracy attack parliamentary democracy and come into political responsibility."— Konstantin von Notz, Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader and Chairman of the Parliamentary Control Committee, and Irene Mihalic, First Parliamentary Managing Director, regarding the elevation of the AfD by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

"Germany will let in whom it wants. Poland will only let in whom it accepts."— Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke during a press conference regarding the German border controls and the resistance against Merz's plans.