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Luxembourg (dpa) - Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has warned Germany of border closings due to the corona pandemic.
"Of course there must be tests in view of the virus mutations, but we must do everything we can to ensure that commuters can get to their workplaces without restrictions," Asselborn told the editorial network Germany (RND / Sonntag).
He pointed out that Luxembourg is dependent on cross-border commuters.
“60 percent of the employees in our hospitals, retirement homes and care facilities are cross-border commuters.
If these commuters can no longer enter, then the health system in Luxembourg collapses. "
Nowhere else has Europe grown together as in this region, said Asselborn.
"Germany, Luxembourg, France and Belgium are founding members of the EU and created the Schengen area."
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Unnecessary trips would unfortunately have to be avoided in the pandemic, Asselborn said.
“But we mustn't make life unnecessarily difficult for the hundreds of thousands of cross-border commuters.
100,000 people from France, 50,000 from Germany and 50,000 from Belgium commute to Luxembourg alone every day. "
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