Germany spends over 80 million euros on border controls

Government figures show that border controls introduced at all German borders in mid-September have cost a total of €80.5 million by the end of June, with officials’ overtime accounting for the largest share. This information comes from a response by the Federal Ministry of the Interior to an inquiry from the Left Party in the Bundestag, which was shared with the daily newspapers of the Funke Media Group on Thursday.

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Additional costs for the deployment of the Federal Police at internal borders amounted to between €24 million and €29.1 million per quarter. From April to the end of June 2025, the federal government paid €8 million for officers’ meals and hotel accommodations, and nearly €3 million went toward allowances for “working at inconvenient times.”

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Officers also spent €2.6 million on “command and operational resources” and almost €2 million on operating border stations. However, the largest expense was overtime pay. From mid-September 2024 to the end of June 2025, additional operational costs of €37.9 million were incurred.

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The federal government reintroduced border controls at all German borders in September 2024 to curb irregular migration. Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) recently announced that the controls would be extended, stating that both checks and rejections would continue beyond September. Currently, up to 14,000 federal police officers are deployed at Germany’s borders.

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