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However, East German authorities could still refuse entry permits. East Berliners and East Germans could at first not travel to West Berlin or West Germany at all. This regulation remained in force essentially until the fall of the wall, but over the years several exceptions to these rules were introduced, the most significant being:
Russia – In 2014, the EU suspended talks for visa-free travel with Russia as a result of the War in Donbas. [170] In 2019, German officials suggested a visa-free regime for young Russians. [171] In 2022, the EU fully suspended its visa facilitation agreement with Russia as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [172]
The removal of restrictions on travel prompted hundreds of thousands of East Germans to migrate to the West – more than 116,000 did so between 9 November and 31 December 1989, compared with 40,000 for the whole of the previous year. [177]
A special unit of police and customs officials have raided several properties of a Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria, officials said Thursday. The unidentified Russian is subject ...
Patrol ship (Zollkreuzer) Helgoland (a SWATH-Vessel) Vehicle of the Bundeszollverwaltung in Germany The Customs Service's enforcement duties include monitoring the movement of goods into, through and out of the EU with respect to customs law, border police work, general police work in road traffic, protection of the German continental shelf in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea (more precisely ...
They were required to stay in state-owned "Interhotels", where rooms cost five to ten times more than the price of the (very few) ordinary East German hotels. [4] Given these restrictions, not surprisingly, East Germany did not develop much of a tourist industry; even as late as May 1990, there were only 45,000 hotel beds in the entire country. [5]
BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to China with a business delegation from April 15 to 16, a person involved in the planning told Reuters on Wednesday. The Asia-Pacific ...
China will not stand by idly if the German government decides to restrict the use of components from Chinese firms such as Huawei and ZTE <000063.SZ> in its 5G network, the Chinese embassy in ...