The EU Commission has told Germany to lift its tight border restrictions for Tyrol, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, stressing that they are too "restrictive".
Police in Denmark have required participants in an amateur running event that crosses the Danish-German border to carry passports or other valid travel documents.
Police officers discovered a dead Pole in the back seat of a van on Thursday morning, during a routine check near the town of Pomellen on the Polish border in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.