i'm joined now by stefan myer junior minister in the german interior ministry and member of the conservative c.s.u. party in the state of mr my welcome are you confident that the situation has improved enough that it's safe to relax border controls to countries like switzerland and austria we are very confident and satisfied that all our measures and all our boss through. of the last weeks are successful we are successful in our containment policy with regard to the printer i make fortunately the number of new infections is through all the low now many so now it's possible to lift a lot of sanctions in the different states and also to try to end the border controls as it was said we will and the border controls to luxembourg this night and we are open for further. lift lifting the restrictions to france to austria to switzerland deeply convinced this is a very important signal especially for those citizens who live next to the to the borders and certainly in a lot of reach and. the economy is linked to each other very intensively and it's very important for the people on both sides of the bo