[CSMONITOR] Denmark and Sweden tightened their borders on Monday in efforts to stem the flow of migrants entering Scandinavia from Germany.Just hours after Swedish rules went into effect requiring train passengers traveling from Denmark to show ID, the Danish government announced it had beefed up border controls with Germany as of noon Monday (1100 GMT, 6 a.m. EST).
"We are introducing temporary border controls, but in a balanced way," Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen told news hounds in Copenhagen, adding there would be no problem for "ordinary" Danes and Germans to cross the border.
The moves were the latest by European Union
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countries to suspend an agreement to keep internal borders open after 1 million migrants entered the 28-nation bloc in 2015, most of them by crossing the Mediterranean to Greece or Italia.